Σκαῖος

Where it lives

• Histories 2 · 0.11/10k

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.

In the wild

• Σκαῖος · Skaios Herodotus, Histories 5.60.1 (DIORISIS sentence 5746)
• Σκαῖος · Skaios Herodotus, Histories 5.60.1 (DIORISIS sentence 5745)

Where it came from

• Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. Σκαῖος (scan p. 1390; entry #5547). Root candidates: *sker-.
• Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. Σκαῖος (scan p. 1029; entry #7280).
• Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. Σκαῖος (scan p. 1686; entry #5162).

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