The primary headword is first person singular, present indicative (or subjunctive), peleka/w. It is unattested outside lexicography, but the gloss might derive from commentary on Homer, Odyssey 5.244, where pele/kkhsen occurs. See also Eustathius' commentary ad loc., where a similar (but not identical) distinction is made between peleka/w and peleki/zw. Eustathius says that grammarians note that the former is used in the case of wooden objects, and the latter in the case of sheep and oxen and other living things.