The corpus record

καλλῐ-

kalli

etc

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What it meant

1. καλλι- · kalli- — Beekes

καλλι-, etc. Strémberg 1940: 153 thinks it is a loan. The locus in Alcman (16) has no digamma; cf. Solmsen 1901: 146. DELG considers the variant ἐἑλειό- either a mistake or an ‘étymologie populaire déraisonnable’. — [Beekes, s.v. καλλι-, p. 459]

2. καλλῐ- · kalli- — LSJ

beautiful

beautiful: καλο- is later and less common.

like a mere Adj. with its Subst., as καλλίπαις, = καλὴ παῖς.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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