quail
quail (Egyptian chennu), salted and eaten by the Egyptians, PSI 4.428.21, 7.862.11 (iii B. C.), Hipparch.Epic. ap. Ath. 9.393c, AP 9.377 (Pall.), PLond. 2.239.12 (iv A. D.).
II fish
a kind of fish, Hsch.
The corpus record
χέννιον
chennion · τό
quail, fish
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What it meant — LSJ
Where it came from
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