ἅλς, ἁλός [ᾰ],
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__B (ἁλὸς πολιοῖο[[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 20.229)] Refs 8th c.BC+], sea (generally of shallow water near shore), εἰς ἅλα δῖαν[[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.141; χεῖρας νιψάμενος πολιῆς ἁλός ] Refs 8th c.BC+]in sea-water, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.261; ἢ ἁλὸς ἢ ἐπὶ γῆς 12.27: sometimes pleonastic πόντος ἁλός 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.59, 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 10] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἁλὸς πελάγη or πέλαγος, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.335, “hymnus ad Apollinem” 73, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Troades” 88; πελαγίαν ἅλα 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 427; παρ᾽ ἁλμυρὰν ἅλα 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 17] Refs 8th c.BC+]; in plural (with a pun on ἅλς A), [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 760.—poetical word: _nominative_ only 5th c.BC: Empedocles Poeta Philosophus 56] Refs 5th c.BC+]. (Cf. Latin sal: both masculine and feminine are from the same root.)