εἵλη + ἔχω
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(Lentz) παρὰ τὸ χῶ […] διπλασιασμῷ καγχαλῶ πλεονασμῷ τοῦ γ· καὶ τὸ ἔλεγχος ὁ ἕλην ἐν ἑαυτῷ ἔχων καὶ λαμπρύνας τὸ ψεῦδος·
Translation (En)
From khō […] by reduplication and addition of /g/, kagkhalō; and the word elegkhos "refutation", the one having (ekhōn) in itself the sunlight (helēn) and illuminating the lies
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Orion, Etymologicum, epsilon, p. 54 (Ἔλεγχος. πλεονασμῷ τοῦ γ ἔλεγχος ἐστὶν, ἐπεὶ ἑλὴν ἔχειν. ἑλὴ δὲ ἡ τοῦ ἡλίου λαμπεδών. λαμπρύνεται δὲ τὸ ζητούμενον καὶ φανεροῦται ἀντὶ τούτου); Epimerismi homerici ordine alphabetico traditi, epsilon 183 (παρὰ τὸ χῶ […] διπλασιασμῷ καγχαλῶ πλεονασμῷ τοῦ γ· καὶ τὸ ἔλεγχος, <τ>ὸ ἕλην ἐν ἑαυτῷ ἔχον καὶ λαμπρότητα τοῦ ψεύδους); Etym. Gudianum, epsilon, p. 452 (Ἔλεγχος· ... παρὰ τὸ ἕλην ἔχειν ἤγουν φῶς); Etym. Magnum, Kallierges, p. 327 (Ἐλέγχω: Ὁ μέλλων, ἐλέγξω· γίνεται ἐκ τοῦ ἔλεγχος. Ἔλεγχος δέ ἐστιν ὁ τὸ πρᾶγμα σαφηνίζων· παρὰ τὸ ἕλην ἔχειν, ἤγουν λαμπηδόνα καὶ φῶς, ἔλεχός τις ὢν, καὶ πλεονασμῷ τοῦ γ· ὁ φωτίζων τὰ πράγματα. Ὁ γὰρ ἔλεγχος εἰς φῶς ἄγει τὰ πράγματα); Etym. Symeonis, epsilon 288 (Ἔλεγχος· ὁ τὸ πρᾶγμα σαφηνίζων· καὶ ῥῆμα ἐλέγχω πλεονασμῷ τοῦ γ ἔλεγχός τις ὤν, ὁ ἕλην ἔχων, ὅ ἐστι φῶς, καὶ φωτίζων τὰ πράγματα); Ps.-Zonaras, Lexicon, epsilo,n p. 683 (Ἔλεγχος. αἰσχύνη καὶ ὁ τὸ πρᾶγμα σαφηνίζων. καὶ ῥῆμα ἐλέγχω πλεονασμῷ τοῦ γ, ἔλεχος τὶς ὢν, ὁ ἕλην ἔχων, ὅ ἐστι φῶς, καὶ φωτίζων τὰ πράγματα)
Comment
Compositional etymology. The refutation exposes the lies and make them clear to everyone. Therefore, the word is thought to have an etymology referring to light. Since there is no word with this meaning that is formally suitable, the etymon is assumed to be εἵλη, Attic ἕλη "heat of the sun", because the heat of the sun is correlated with the sunlight. Heat and light are not synonymous, but in the case of the sun they are closely associated. So, the one can stand for the other in the etymological explanation. This is explicit in the Gudianum (παρὰ τὸ ἕλην ἔχειν ἤγουν φῶς "from ἔχειν ἕλην, that is, φῶς")