The corpus record
Γαῖα
gaia
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Where it lives
- 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 30 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
In the wild
- Γαῖαν · Gaian Aeschylus, Eumenides 1
- Γαῖαν · Gaian Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 124–128
- Γᾶ · Ga Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 399
- Γαῖʼ · Gaiʼ Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 489
- Γᾶ · Ga Aeschylus, Persians 640–644
- Γῇ · Gēi Aeschylus, Persians 219
6 of 84 attestations shown. Ask for more.
Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. Γαῖα (scan p. 302; entry #1364).
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. Γαῖα (scan p. 220; entry #1513).
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. Γαῖα (scan p. 314; entry #1224).