Egyptian name for κροκόδειλος, Hdt. 2.69, cj. in A. Supp. 878 (lyr.). (Egyptian msh, Arabic timsāh.)
The corpus record
χάμψα
champsa · ὁ
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Where it lives
- Histories 1 · 0.05/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- χάμψαι · champsai Herodotus, Histories 2.69.3 (DIORISIS sentence 2041)
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.