κνήμ-η,
Doric dialect κνάμα [νᾱ], ἡ, part between knee and ankle, leg, shank, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.147, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.135, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.75, 125, 7.75, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 1394, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; of a horse, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Equitandi ratione” 1.5, 12.10: proverbial, ἀπωτέρω ἢ γόνυ κνάμα] Refs 5th c.BC+] 'blood is thicker than water', [[ 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 16.18. ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__2 Anatomy texts, tibia, [[ 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 2.774, 2nd c.AD: Rufus Medicus “περὶ ὀνομασίας” 123. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__3 in plants, stem between two joints, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 9.13.5 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; κνήμη (variant{μνήμου}) μελίνης uncertain meaning in [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 608. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II spoke of a wheel, [[ 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 1.144, 12th c.AD: Eustathius Episcopus Thessalonicensis 598.4 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]. (Cf. OIr. cnāim 'bone', O[[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus ] Refs 5th c.BC+] hamm 'ham'.)