Πέλλα

Where it lives

• On Halonnesus 1 · 4.11/10k
• On the False Embassy 3 · 1.3/10k
• On the Crown 1 · 0.51/10k
• Hellenica 1 · 0.15/10k
• History 2 · 0.13/10k
• Histories 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

This reads as a proper name — a river, a person, a place — held only because the corpus attests it. It stands outside the library's subject, the vocabulary of the soul, so no lexicon entry is recorded.

Where it came from

• Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. Πέλλα (scan p. 1218; entry #4880). Root candidates: *peleku-.
• Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. Πέλλα (scan pp. 893-894; entry #6380).
• Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. Πέλλα (scan p. 1470; entry #4555).

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