1. εἱμάδες · heimades — Beekes
εἱμάδες [pl.?] - ποιμένων οἰκίαι ‘houses of shepherds’ (H.). «Ὁ» *ETYM Formation like δειράς, εἴς; is the word derived from ἐρεῖμα = Lat. vimen ‘rod, wickerwork’? — [Beekes, s.v. εἱμάδες, p. 435]
The corpus record
εἰμάδες·
eimades
houses of shepherds
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What it meant
2. εἱμάδες · heimades — Chantraine
εἱμάδες : ποιμένων οἰκίαι (Hsch.). Voir Latte qui conjecture < y >etu4dec. Et.: L'hypothèse qui verrait dans ce mot un dérivé de ἘΡεῖμα — lat. uimen «osier», etc., échappe à toute démonstration. — [Chantraine, s.v. εἱμάδες, p. 335]
3. εἱμάδες · heimades — Frisk
εἱμάδες" ποιμένων οἰκίαι H. — Bildung wie δειράς usw.; aus *Feina = lat. vimen “Rute, Flechtwerk’? Unsichere Hypothese von H. Petersson Frän Filol. fören. i Lund. Spräkl. upps. IV (1915) 139. — [Frisk, s.v. εἱμάδες, p. 494]
4. εἰμάδες· · eimades· — LSJ
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.