poor, needy
poor, needy, Theoc. 16.33: dat. pl. ἀχήνεσσιν Epigr. in BCH 11.161 (Lagina), see also ἠχῆνες, ἀεχῆνες.
The corpus record
ἀχήν
achen · ὁ
poor, needy
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What it meant — LSJ
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.