name of the letter ξ, Callias ap. Ath. 10.453d, BCH 29.483 (Delos), Phld. Pο. 2.3 : later ξῖ Luc. Jud.Voc. 9, Sch.D.T. p.489 H., etc. ; ξῦ (by assimilation to νῦ), f.l. in Luc. l.c. and AP 9.385.14 (Steph. Gramm.).
The corpus record
ξεῖ
xei · τό
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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.