chief, sheikh
= ἄρχων τοῦ γένους, IG 3.1278, cf. OGI 531 (Bith.); = γενάρχης (which is freq. v.l.), Apollod. 2.1.4, Heraclit. All. 22, Jul. Ep. 89, etc.; πόλεως γ. chief, sheikh, CR Acad.Inscr. 1924.28 (Dura).
The corpus record
γενεάρχ-ης
genearches · ὁ
chief, sheikh
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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.