The corpus record

ἱμανήθρη

imanethre

well-rope

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What it meant

1. ἱμανήθρη · himanēthrē — Beekes

ἱμανήθρη [f.] ‘well-rope’ (Herod. 5, 11). *ETYM Formation like κολυμβήθρα (related to κολυμβάω), ἀλινδήθρα (to ἀλινδέω, ἀλίνδω), et al. (cf. Chantraine 1933: 373f.), which would presuppose a verb *ipavaw (Bechtel 1921(3): 304) or *ipaive; see on » ἱμάς (especially ἱμονιάλ, — [Beekes, s.v. ἱμανήθρη, p. 636]

2. ἱμανήθρη · himanēthrē — LSJ

= ἱμονιά, Herod. 5.11.

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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