[Meaning] hubbub/uproar. [The word is formed] by addition of the intensive alpha.
*)alalhto/n: qo/rubon. kata\ pleonasmo\n tou= e)pitatikou= a.
From the
scholia to
Homer,
Iliad 4.436, where the headword, here accusative, occurs in the nominative. Same or similar material in other lexica.
The grammarians identified an intensive prefix alpha, as well as
alpha steretikon (from *n-, meaning "not") and
alpha athroistikon (from *sm-, meaning "with, together." See LSJ, page 1. The idea here is that
a)lalhto/s comes from
lale/w "speak" with an intensive prefix; more probably it is derived from the exclamation
a)lalai/ (cf.
alpha 1060). See LSJ entry at web address 1.
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