The Homeric Greek word γαῖα
Word γαῖα
ɟ a î a
IPA gaja
Meaning land, country
See also Homeric Greek: αἶα ‘earth, land’
Synonyms δῆμος

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Other words that might be of interest
Ἐννοσίγαιος ‘earth-shaker’, Ἐνοσίχθων ‘earth-shaker’, Αἰγιαλός ‘shore, beach, place name’, ἄκρις ‘hill-top, mountain peak’, ἄλσος ‘grove’, ἄμαθος ‘sandy soil’, ἄμμος ‘sand’, ἄσις ‘slime, mud’, ἀγρός ‘field’, ξύλον ‘wood’, δένδρεον ‘tree’, δένδρον ‘tree’, δόρυ ‘stem, tree’, δρῦς ‘tree’, ἐπιχθόνιος ‘upon the earth, earthly’, φήγινος ‘oaken’, γαιήοχος ‘earth-moving, earth-carrying’, γῆ ‘earth’, ἠιών ‘a sea-bank, shore, beach’, ἠμαθόεις ‘sandy’, ἰλύς ‘mud, slime’, κάπετος ‘ditch, trench’, κᾶλον ‘wood’, κλιτύς ‘a slope, hill-side’, κλωμακόεις ‘stony, rocky’, κόνις ‘dust’, κολώνη ‘hill, mound’, κονία ‘dust’, κραναός ‘rocky, rugged’, κρατευταί ‘stone’, λᾶας ‘stone’, λίθος ‘stone’, νῆσος ‘island’, ὀρέστερος ‘of the mountains, mountain’, ὀρεσίτροφος ‘mountain-bred’, ὀρεσιτρόφος ‘mountain-bred’, ὀρεσκῷος ‘lying on mountains, mountain-bred, wild’, οὖδας ‘surface of the earth, ground’, πέδον ‘ground, earth’, πέτρα ‘rock’, πέτρος ‘stone’, πετρήεις ‘rocky’, πηλός ‘clay, earth’, πολύκνημος ‘with many mountain-spurs, mountainous’, πυρήν ‘stone’, σαφής ‘clear, plain, distinct’, σανίς ‘board, plank, timber’, τάφρος ‘ditch, trench’, ὑλήεις ‘woody, wooded’, χαράδρα ‘mountain-stream, torrent, which cuts itself’, χέρσος ‘dry land’, χθών ‘earth’, ψάμαθος ‘sand of the sea-shore’, δρύινος ‘oaken’, λᾶιγξ ‘a small stone, pebble’, λιθάς ‘stone’, μορύσσω ‘soil, defile’, θολός ‘mud, dirt’