rarer form of ψάμμος, Hdt. 4.181 (v.l. ψάμμος), who elsewh. always has the common form: Dor. ψάμμα A. Pr. 573 (lyr.), Ar. Lys. 1261 (lyr.).
The corpus record
ψάμμη
psamme · ἡ
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Where it lives
- Histories 1 · 0.05/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- ψάμμης · psammēs Herodotus, Histories 4.181.1 (DIORISIS sentence 5211)
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.