καλαΐς
Οὐ γὰρ ἀργίας ὤνιον ἡ ὑγίεια καὶ ἀπραξίας, ἅ γε δὴ μέγιστα κακῶν ταῖς νόσοις πρόσεστι, καὶ οὐδὲν διαφέρει τοῦ τὰ ὄμματα τῷ μὴ διαβλέπειν καὶ τὴν φωνὴν τῷ μὴ φθέγγεσθαι φυλάττοντος ὁ τὴν ὑγίειαν ἀχρηστίᾳ καὶ ἡσυχίᾳ σῴζειν οἰόμενος → For health is not to be purchased by idleness and inactivity, which are the greatest evils attendant on sickness, and the man who thinks to conserve his health by uselessness and ease does not differ from him who guards his eyes by not seeing, and his voice by not speaking
Greek Monolingual
καλαΐς, ἡ (Α)
κότα.
[ΕΤΥΜΟΛ. Η λ. συνδέθηκε με το καλῶ, δηλ. καλαΐς < καλαFίς «αυτή που καλεί, που φωνάζει» (< καλαFός), πρβλ. αρχ. ινδ. ūsā-kala- «κόκορας» (αυτός που λαλάει, που καλεί νωρίς»). Η υποτεθείσα σύνδεση με τα καλ(λ)άινος, κάλ(λ)αϊς, κάλλαιον δεν φαίνεται πιθανή].
Frisk Etymological English
ιδοςGrammatical information: f.
Meaning: hen, as masc. cock? (IG 4, 914, 3; 21; Epid.Va).
Other forms: only acc. -ιδα.
Origin: XX [etym. unknown]
Etymology: - No etymology. Mostly taken from καλεῖν (Meister Sächs. Ber. 1899, 153f., Dittenberger SIG 998). Acc. to Bechtel Dial. 2, 510f. from *καλαϜίς, f. from *καλαϜός , prop. "the one calling"; cf. Skt. uṣā-kala- "who calls early", cock (s. ἠϊκανός). Fraenkel Glotta 4, 33f. too connects καλαϊς with καλεῖν, but takes the second element as the zero grade (?) of ἀείδειν; i.e. "call-singer"; almost impossible. However, fom καλέω we cannot get *καλα- (as the root ended in -h₁). - Pagliari Arch. glottol. it. 39, 145ff. identifies καλαϊς hen with κάλλαϊς turquoise (and with κάλαϊς τὸ ἱστίον H.) and also καλάϊνος, and κάλλαιον. - Fur. 125 n. connects Lat. gallus.
