αἰσάλων
χλανίσι δὲ δὴ φαναῖσι περιπεπεµµένοι καὶ µαστίχην τρώγοντες, ὄζοντες µύρου. τὸ δ’ ὅλον οὐκ ἐπίσταµαι ἐγὼ ψιθυρίζειν, οὐδὲ κατακεκλασµένος πλάγιον ποιήσας τὸν τράχηλον περιπατεῖν, ὥσπερ ἑτέρους ὁρῶ κιναίδους ἐνθάδε πολλοὺς ἐν ἄστει καὶ πεπιττοκοπηµένους → Dressed up in bright clean fine cloaks and nibbling pine-thistle, smelling of myrrh. But I do not at all know how to whisper, nor how to be enervated, and make my neck go back and forth, just as I see many others, kinaidoi, here in the city, do, and waxed with pitch-plasters.
English (LSJ)
ωνος, ὁ, a kind of hawk, prob.
A merlin, Falco aesalon, Arist.HA609b8, Plin.HN10.205:—αἰσάρων, Hsch.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
αἰσάλων: -ωνος, ὁ, εἶδος ἱέρακος, ἴσως τὸ «τσιχλοϊέρακον», Λατ. falco aesalon, Ἀριστ. Ἱ. Ζ. 9. 36, 1.
Spanish (DGE)
-ωνος, ὁ
• Alolema(s): αἰσάρων Hsch.
orn. esmerejón, Falco columbarius L., Arist.HA 609b8, 30, 620a18, Antig.Mir.59, Ael.NA 2.51, Plin.HN 10.205 (cf. ἀϊτάριν).
• Etimología: Se propone un origen no griego, tracio o pelásgico.
Russian (Dvoretsky)
αἰσάλων: ωνος ὁ зоол. предполож. кобчик (Falco aesalon) Arst.
Frisk Etymological English
Grammatical information: m.
Meaning: kind of falcon (Arist.); see Thompson Birds.
Other forms: Cf. αἰσάρων εἶδος ἱέρακος H.
Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]
Etymology: Etym. unknown. Thracian acc. to Krause (s. αἴσακος). Kretschmer Glotta 11, 281 thought it was substantivised from a Pelasgian-Tyrrhenian *αἴσαρος = ἱερός, cf. ἱέραξ (doubtful). Fur. 387 gives it as pre-Greek with ρ\/λ, of which he has more than 30 examples.
