The corpus record

λιμν-αῖον

limnaion

four-footed water-animal

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Where it lives

De aere aquis et locis 2 · 2.7/10k
Frogs 1 · 1.1/10k
Histories 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

1. λιμναῖον · limnaion — Beekes

λιμναῖον ‘four-footed water-animal’. He further adduces Basquesatero ‘field-mouse’ and sator ‘mole’. It is possible that σάθραξ: φθείρ ‘louse; a sea-fish’ (H.) is somehow related as well. — [Beekes, s.v. λιμναῖον, p. 1352]

2. λιμν-αῖον · limn-aion — LSJ

v.l. for λιμνήσιον, Dsc. 3.7.

In the wild

λιμναῖα · limnaia Aristophanes, Frogs 211–220
λιμναῖον · limnaion Herodotus, Histories 2.68.1 (DIORISIS sentence 2023)
λιμναῖα · limnaia Hippocrates, De aere aquis et locis 7 (DIORISIS sentence 102)
λιμναίων · limnaiōn Hippocrates, De aere aquis et locis 8 (DIORISIS sentence 156)

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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