The corpus record
Γαῖα
gaia
Figures and citations on this page are drawn from the audited corpus; none are written from memory.
Distribution
- Theogony 25 · 36.3/10k
- Suppliant Maidens 6 · 12.44/10k
- Persians 4 · 7.86/10k
- Libation Bearers 3 · 5.58/10k
- Ion 4 · 4.37/10k
- Seven Against Thebes 2 · 3.97/10k
- Electra 2 · 2.65/10k
- Phoenissae 2 · 2.07/10k
- Oedipus at Colonus 2 · 1.93/10k
- Eumenides 1 · 1.91/10k
- Symposium 3 · 1.72/10k
- Prometheus Bound 1 · 1.7/10k
Densest 12 of 32 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
Senses
This appears to be a proper name — a person, a place, a river — attested in the corpus but outside the library's subject, the vocabulary of the soul; no lexicon entry is recorded.
Attestations
- Γῇ · Gēi Iliad 3.104
- Γαῖα · Gaia Iliad 15.36
- Γῆ · Gē Iliad 19.259
- Γαίης · Gaiēs Odyssey 11.576
- Γαῖάν · Gaian Theogony 9–21
- Γαῖα · Gaia Theogony 43–46
6 of 86 attestations shown. Ask for more.
Deep etymology
Authority pointers, pending review
These are the etymology authorities that treat this word, with their exact locators. They are bibliographic pointers, not a published word history: no root, reconstruction, derivation, cognate, or origin is asserted here.
- scan p. 302; entry #1364 Review: Under source audit
- scan p. 220; entry #1513 Review: Under source audit
- scan p. 314; entry #1224 Review: Under source audit
The authorities' own wording is withheld pending review. Each source's identity, locator, and review status are cited above.
Downloads
Word record (JSON)·Concordance (CSV)·Frequencies (CSV)·Cite (BibTeX)
CC BY 4.0, with receipt attribution. What is exportable