measure
a liquid measure used in Egypt, τὸν χαλμαίαν τοῦ ἐλαίου PSI 5.531 (iii B. C.).
The corpus record
χαλμαίας
chalmaias · ὁ
measure
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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.