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ὄλιγγος

oliggos

id.

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What it meant

1. ὄλιγγος · olingos — Beekes

ὄλιγγος [3] akind of locust (Phot., Suid.). eVAR ὀλίγιοι: εἶδος ἀκρίδων ‘id.’, τινές ῥιζίον, ὅμοιον βολβῷ “a small root, like a bulb’ (H.); thus Latte, but the ms. has (unaccented) ὀλιγιοι. DELG thinks that the correct form should be ὄλιγγοι. Ὁ *ETYM Connection with λιγύς does not help (Frisk, DELG). In view of the prenasalization, the word may be Pre-Greek (not in Fur.), Cf. Gil Fernandez 1959: 95. See » … — [Beekes, s.v. ὄλιγγος, p. 1119]

2. ὄλιγγος · olingos — LSJ

locust

a kind of locust, Phot., Suid.

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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