The corpus record

ψελλός

psellos

faltering in speech

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Where it lives

Prometheus Bound 1 · 1.7/10k

What it meant — LSJ

faltering in speech

faltering in speech, like a child; distd. fr. τραυλός (lisping), Arist. HA 492b32, Pr. 902b22; τὸ ψ. prob. in Phld. Rh. 2.206S.; ἡ ψελλὴ οὐ πιττεύω (i. e. πιστεύω) Suid., App.Prov. 3.17.

II inarticulate, obscure, unintelligible

Pass. of words, inarticulate, obscure, unintelligible, A. Pr. 816; ψελλόν ἐστι καὶ καλεῖ τὴν ἄρκτον ἄρτον Com.Adesp. 393.

In the wild

ψελλόν · psellon Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 816–817

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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