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Toponymy and onomastics can be helpful for the reconstruction of ancient stages of Greek language. Fossilized forms and sequences survive in names of months, places and persons. Furthermore, seldom attested words of the first millennium BCE can be explained when analyzed in the frame of morphological and lexical series: this is the case with the term ἐνηλάσιον, a strange denomination for a tax attested in Chios, in a fourth century BCE inscription which regulates the leasing of agricultural lands. In fine we will study the meaning of the verb στέγω which is used in connection with the mention of bronze vessels in 4th century Delian inventories.