A.neigh, whinny, of horses, Il.12.51, Hdt.3.86,87, Pl. R.396b, Phdr.254d, Jul.Mis.366a: metaph. of lewd men, “χ. ἐπὶ γυναῖκα” LXX Je.5.8.—In Hes.Sc.348 we have a shorter form of 3pl. aor. 1, χρέμισαν, asif from χρεμίζω. (Cf. χρόμη, χρόμαδος, OE.gremettan, grymettan 'to roar', OSlav. v[ucaron]z-gr[icaron]měti 'to thunder'.)
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χρεμετ-ίζω ,
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.
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