1. Δαναοί · Danaoi — Beekes
The corpus record
Δᾰναοί
*danaoi
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What it meant
2. Δαναοί · Danaoi — Chantraine
3. Δαναοί · Danaoi — Frisk
4. Δᾰναοί · Danaoi — LSJ
the Danaäns, subjects of Δάναος, king of Argos, but in Il. 1.42, al., for the Greeks generally (but expl. as = νεκροί (cf. δάνος (B)), EM 247.49): Com. Sup. Δαναώτατος Ar. Fr. 259:—Δαναΐδαι, ῶν, οἱ, the sons or descendants of Danaus, E. Ph. 466:—Δαναΐδες, αἱ, his daughters, name of a play of A.
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.