λαισήϊον · laisēion — LSJ
animalʼs skin with hair left on
animalʼs skin with hair left on, used as a shield, βοείας ἀσπίδας εὐκύκλους λαισήϊά τε πτερόεντα Il. 5.453 = 12.426, cf. Scol. 28.2: used by the Cilicians, Hdt. 7.91.
The corpus record
λαισήιον
laiseion · τό
animalʼs skin with hair left on
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Where it lives
- Iliad 2 · 0.18/10k
- Histories 1 · 0.05/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- λαισήια · laisēia Herodotus, Histories 7.91.1 (DIORISIS sentence 7597)
- λαισήϊά · laisēia Iliad 12.426
- λαισήϊά · laisēia Iliad 5.453
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.