LOGOI

The corpus record

ὑλάω

ulao

bark, bay, howl, bark

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Where it lives

  • Bacchae 1 · 1.33/10k
  • Machabaeorum IV 1 · 1.3/10k
  • Odyssey 4 · 0.46/10k
  • Discourses 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant — LSJ

bark, bay

= ὑλακτέω, used only by Poets and only in pres. and impf., bark, bay, of dogs, κύνες οὐχ ὑλάουσιν, ἀλλὰ περισσαίνουσι Od. 16.9; κύων . . ἄνδρʼ ἀγνοιήσασʼ ὑλάει 20.15; θεσπέσιον ὑλάοντες Theoc. 25.70:—Med., κύνες οὐχ ὑλάοντο Od. 16.162.

2 howl

metaph. of a man, howl, ἣ μάτην ὑλῶ (so Herm. for ὑλακτῶ); S. Fr. 61 (lyr., dub.); of Cassandra, μάτην ὑλάουσα Tryph. 421.

II bark, bay at

trans., bark or bay at, τινα Od. 16.5 (so perh. 20.15, v. supr.).

In the wild

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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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