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ῥήν

ren · ἡ

sheep, lamb

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What it meant — LSJ

sheep, lamb

sheep, lamb (not found in nom.), ῥήνεσσι A.R. 4.1497; ῥῆνα Nic. Th. 453. (From ϝρήν, old nom. of ϝάρνα, ϝαρνός, etc., v. ἀρήν, and cf. πολύ-ρρην:—also ῥᾶνα· ἄρνα, Hsch. (perh. Elean); τρανόν [i.e. perh. ϝρᾶνον]· ἑξαμηνιαῖον πρόβατον, Id.)

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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