palm-leaf
palm-leaf (Coptic bai), Chaerem. ap. Porph. Abst. 4.7, PMag.Leid.V. 7.16, PLond. 1.131r384 (i A. D.), etc.; gen. pl. βαΐων PMag.Leid.V. 7.17, LXX 1 Ma. 13.51.
The corpus record
βάϊς
bais · ἡ
palm-leaf
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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.