LOGOI

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βολεών

boleon

dunghill (Din.). <GR?> DER βολεός ‘heaped

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What it meant

1. βολεών · boleōn — Beekes

βολεών ‘dunghill (Din.). DER βολεός ‘heaped’ (inscr. II*, LSJ Supp.), οἔλίθοι ‘stones’ as boundary marks. *ETYM Generally derived from βάλλω, but this could be deceptive. The suffix is obscure; see Chantraine 1933: 164. BoAedc may or may not be cognate. — [Beekes, s.v. βολεών, p. 272]

2. βολεών · boleōn — LSJ

dunghill

dunghill, Din. ap. Harp., Philem. 221 codd., Nic. ap. Harp., Eust. 1404 fin.

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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