Χαμάδις

Notes

1. The primary headword xama/dis appears frequently in Homer (e.g. Iliad 3.300, 6.147; Odyssey 9.290); also in Aeschylus, Seven against Thebes↗ 357. Commentary on these passages is the most probable source for most of the information in this entry.
   The headword and the supplementary lemma xama=ze are formed from the obsolescent xa/ma ('ground', 'earth'), which survives primarily in compounds from the classical period and later and in the allative/illative/locative forms in epic mentioned in this entry. Both have directional suffixes common in epic: -ze is probably from original -de, by analogy with forms like qura/sde ("to the doors/gates"); the origins of -dis are less certain. The gloss xamai/ (chi 64) is a proper locative; the PIE locative morphological suffix was *-i for stems in *-eH2 (which became Greek nouns of the first declension in -a, Att.-Ion. -h).
   Parts of this entry have parallels in Etymologicum Magnum 806.5 and the scholia to Homer, Iliad 3.29 (where xama=ze appears: web address 1 below). See also Hesychius chi127, ps.-Zonaras 1846, and (according to Adler) Lexicum Ambrosianum 134.