The corpus record

μελάγ-χῐμος

melagchimos

black spots in the snow

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Where it lives

Suppliant Maidens 2 · 4.15/10k
On Hunting 2 · 2.2/10k
Persians 1 · 1.96/10k
Libation Bearers 1 · 1.86/10k
Rhesus 1 · 1.86/10k
Electra 1 · 1.32/10k

What it meant

1. μελάγ-χιμος · melag-chimos — Beekes

μελάγ-χιμος “black (on a white ground), dark spotted’ (A., E.), ta μελάγχιμα ‘black spots in the snow’ (X. Cyn. 8,1 and 7, Poll.). See also » χίμαιρα. eETYM An inherited word for ‘winter’ or ‘snow’, with numerous representatives in various languages: 1. An n-stem like in χεῖμα and χειμών is found in Skt. loc. héman ‘in winter < IE *geim-en and in Hitt. gimmi, gimmant- ‘winter’ < *g*im-n-i, *#im-n-ent-. Alb. (Gheg) … — [Beekes, s.v. μελάγ-χιμος, p. 1671]

2. μελάγ-χῐμος · melag-chimos — LSJ

black, dark, dark spots in snow

black, dark, γυῖα, στρατός, A. Supp. 719, 745 (lyr.); φάρη Id. Ch. 11; πέπλοι, οἶς, E. Ph. 372, El. 513; νύξ A. Pers. 301; τὰ μ. dark spots in snow, X. Cyn. 8.1, cf. Poll. 5.66.— For the form cf. δύσχιμος.

In the wild

μελαγχίμοις · melanchimois Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 10–11
μελαγχίμου · melanchimou Aeschylus, Persians 300–301
μελαγχίμῳ · melanchimōi Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens 743–745
μελαγχίμοις · melanchimois Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens 719–721
μελάγχιμον · melanchimon Euripides, Electra (DIORISIS sentence 275)
μελάγχιμον · melanchimon Euripides, Rhesus 1 (DIORISIS sentence 612)

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Where it came from

Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. μελάγ-χῐμος (scan p. 1671; entry #6533).

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