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==Earliest recorded meaning==
− It is first found on the Mycenaean tablets, in the instrumental plural [[gmy|re-wo-pi]].^(Beekes 2010)^(Rosół 2013) Homer uses it for the lion, often in similes of warriors;^(Cunliffe 1924)^(LSJ 1940) in the ''Iliad'' Zeus is said to have made Artemis “a lion to women”, because she was thought to bring them sudden death.^(LSJ 1940)^(CGL 2021)
+ It is first found on the Mycenaean tablets, in the instrumental plural [[gmy|re-wo-pi]].^(Beekes 2010)^(Rosół 2013) Homer uses it for the lion;^(Cunliffe 1924)^(LSJ 1940) in the ''Iliad'' Zeus is said to have made Artemis “a lion to women”, because she was thought to bring them sudden death.^(LSJ 1940)^(CGL 2021)
==Semantic evolution==