The corpus record

ὠκύαλος

okualos

sea-swift, speeding oʼer the sea

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Where it lives

Ajax 1 · 1.27/10k
Odyssey 2 · 0.23/10k
Iliad 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant — LSJ

sea-swift, speeding oʼer the sea

perh. sea-swift, speeding oʼer the sea, epith. of a ship, Il. 15.705, Od. 12.182, 15.473, S. Aj. 710 (lyr.), Mosch. 2.60.

2 swift, violent

later, generally, swift, violent, ῥιπή Opp. H. 2.535, cf. Pi. Parth. 2.19. (It is doubtful whether -αλος comes from ἅλς; see opinions of D.H. and Hdn.Gr. ap. Sch.Il. l.c.)

In the wild

ὠκυάλου · ōkyalou Iliad 15.705
ὠκύαλος · ōkyalos Odyssey 12.182
ὠκύαλος · ōkyalos Odyssey 15.473
ὠκυάλων · ōkyalōn Sophocles, Ajax 708–712

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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