χύμα

From Proto-Hellenic *kʰumə, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰewmn̥, from *ǵʰew- (“to pour”), whence χέω (khéō).

χῠ́μᾰ • (khúma) n (genitive χῠ́μᾰτος); third declension

1. that which is poured out or flows, fluid
2. ingot, bar
3. (figurative) confused mass, aggregate, crowd
4. materials, constituents

• ^?χυμεία (khumeía)

• “χύμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “χύμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “χύμα”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• χύμα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• (no entry for the specified headword) Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 1627-8; 1653

From a derivative of Ancient Greek χέω (khéō, “I pour”), along with χυμός (khumós, “juice”).

χύμα • (chýma)

1. at bulk, not in a standardised package (for things sold in retail (by volume or weight) in portions at client's discretion, usually from a bigger package)
2. untidy, disorganized

• Oswald, John (1868): An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language