ἡνία

According to Beekes from Proto-Indo-European *h₂em- (“to grasp”) and cognate with Latin ānsa (“handle”) and Lithuanian ąsà (“handle”).

As a neuter plural:

As a feminine singular:

ἡνίᾰ • (hēnía) n pl (genitive ἡνίων); second declension (plural only, Epic) or
ἡνίᾱ • (hēníā) f (genitive ἡνίᾱς); first declension (post-Homeric)

1. rein, bridle

   Synonyms: ῥυτήρ (rhutḗr), χαλινός (khalinós)

As a neuter plural:

As a feminine singular:

• “ἡνία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἡνία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἡνία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἡνία in 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.
  • bridle idem, page 98.
  • rein idem, page 688.
• 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