A significant number of Elamite terms have a single citation and are hapax legomena. |
My first observation is that Doran is putting all his eggs in the basket of a hapax legomenon. |
Pope notes that Job has more hapax legomena than any other Biblical book. |
It is the commonest word in the lexicon, yet it always reads as a hapax legomenon. |
Ditto for other Ancient Greek hapax legomena that got into dictionaries only because they were coined in classic works. |
In philology a hapax legomenon is almost always a word and is a problem because a single usage doesn't generally give us enough information to figure out what it means. |