lignite
lignite, Orph. L. 474, Plin. HN 36.141, Dsc. 5.128, Gal. 12.203, Gp. 15.1.32.
2 jet
jet, Solin.22.11.
II
= ἀστράγαλος, cj. in Ps.-Dsc. 4.61. (From Γάγας or Γάγγαι, a town and river in Lycia.)
The corpus record
Γᾰγάτης
*gagates · ὁ
lignite, jet
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What it meant — 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.