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The corpus record

ἔᾰρ

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blood, juice, spring

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What it meant — LSJ

blood

blood, λύθρῳ τε καὶ εἴαρι πεπλήθασι Call. Hec. Fr. 328 Pf. [updated ref.]; Αἰακίδαο εἴαρος Euph. 39.3; τὸ δʼ ἐκ μέλαν εἶαρ ἔλαπτεν Call. Fr. 247 [Fr. 523 Pf.], cf. Nic. Al. 314, Opp. H. 2.618; cf. εἰαροπότης, εἰαροπῶτις.

2 juice, spring

juice, εἶαρ ἐλαίης Nic. Al. 87; ἐκ λύχνου πῖον ἔλειξαν ἔαρ Call. Aet. Fr. 177.22 Pf. [updated ref.]. (Cypr. acc. to Hsch.; identified with ἔαρ spring, by EM 307.44, Suid.; cf. Skt. ásṛk, gen. asnás, Lett. asinis ‘blood’.)

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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