1. βλίτυρι · blityri — Beekes
βλίτυρι ‘the sound of the chord of a harp’; hence ‘sound without mg.’ (S. E.) *ETYM Probably onomatopoeic. — [Beekes, s.v. βλίτυρι, p. 269]
The corpus record
βλίτυρι
blituri
the sound of the chord of a harp
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What it meant
2. βλίτυρι · blityri — Chantraine
βλίτυρι : onomatopée imilant le son de la corde d’une harpe (Hsch.) d'où «son dépourvu de sens» {S.E., οἷο... Dénominatif βλιτυρίζομαι (Gal. 8,662), voir aussi βλίτυρον. — [Chantraine, s.v. βλίτυρι, p. 195]
3. βλίτυρι · blityri — LSJ
twang of a harp-string, meaningless sound
twang of a harp-string: hence of a meaningless sound, S.E. M. 8.133, D.L. 7.57, Artem. 4.2, Gal. 8.662.
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.
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