The corpus record

χερν-ής

chernes · ὁ

poor, needy

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Where it lives

Electra 1 · 1.32/10k
Politics 1 · 0.15/10k

What it meant — LSJ

poor, needy, poverty

poor, needy, ἐν χερνῆσι δόμοις E. El. 207 (lyr.); χερνῆτα βίον AP 6.39 (Arch.); with fem. Subst., γυνὴ χ. Gal. ap. Orib. inc. 22(6).13; χέρνης Hsch., but χερνής Hdn. Gr. 1.64; fem. χερνῆσσα ib. 1.250. (Acc. to Hsch. from χέρνα, ἡpoverty: but acc. to Arist. Pol. 1277a38 ὁ ζῶν ἀπὸ τῶν χειρῶν.)

In the wild

χερνῆτες · chernētes Aristotle, Politics 1277a (DIORISIS sentence 969)
χερνῆσι · chernēsi Euripides, Electra 3 (DIORISIS sentence 73)

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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