[Those] from a place [sc. called Oichalia/Oechalia].
*oi)xalh=es: a)po\ to/pou.
Two such places are known: in Aetolia, NW Balkan Greece (Barrington Atlas map 55 grid B3) and -- probably -- on the Aegean island of Euboea. The first one of these is mentioned in
Homer,
Strabo and elsewhere and has doubtless prompted the present entry.
The classification 'place' is properly non-committal: called a polis in
Homer (Iliad 2.730) but a village by
Strabo (7.1.10), and unlikely to have been regarded as a polis in the classical and later periods.
The present form of the headword is confined to the Suda (here and already
epsilon 3718);
*oi)xalih=es elsewhere.
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