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λαλῶ· λῶ, ἀναδιπλασιασμὸς λαλῶ. παράγωγον τοῦ λῶ λάσω καὶ λάσκω. Εὐριπίδης (Andr. 671)· „τοιαῦτα λάσκεις τοὺς ἀναγκαίους φίλους“. τὸ δὲ λῶ δηλοῖ τὸ θέλω· ὃ δὲ θέλει τις καὶ φθέγγεται·
Translation (En)
Lalō "to talk": lō "to want", with reduplication lalō. Derived from lō "to want" are lasō, "I will be hidden" and laskō, "to shout". Euripides (Andr. 671): "You yell at your best friends". Lō, "to want" means "to wish": what someone wants, he expresses it.
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Georgius Choeroboscus, Epimerismi in Psalmos, p. 80 (Ἐκ τοῦ λῶ τὸ λέγω γίνεται ἕτερον ῥῆμα, λάσκω, ὡς παρ’ Εὐριπίδῃ, τοιαῦτα λάσκεις τοὺς ἀναγκαίους φίλους); Etym. Parvum, lambda p.17 (Λάσκω· παρὰ τὸ λαλῶ· ὡς καὶ Εὐριπίδης ‘τοιαῦτα λάσκει τοῖς ἀναγκαίοις φίλοις’); Etym. Gudianum, lambda, p. 361 (Λαλῶ, λῶ, ἐν διπλασιασμῷ λαλῶ· παράγωγον τοῦ λῶ λάσκω. Εὐριπίδης· τοιαῦτα λάσκεις τοὺς ἀναγκαίους φίλους· τὸ δὲ λῶ δηλοῖ τὸ θέλω, ὃ δὲ θέλει τις καὶ φθέγγεται)
Comment
Derivational etymology. Under the root λῶ, "to want", that he describes about the verb λαλῶ, to talk, to chat", Philoxenus adds the poetic verb λάσκω "to shout" found in Euripides.