yoho!, crew, oneʼs messmates
yoho! Ar. Ra. 1073: hence comically, τὸ ῥ. the crew, oneʼs messmates, Id. V. 909; also ῥυπαπαῖ AB 446.—Cf. ἱππαπαῖ.
The corpus record
ῥυππᾰπαῖ
ruppapai
yoho!, crew, oneʼs messmates
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What it meant — LSJ
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.