cf. generally chi 387.
[1] = Rhetoricae Lexeis 220; Synagoge chi95. Perhaps from the scholia to Homer, where the headword often appears (as here) in the accusative singular, e.g. Iliad 1.283 (web address 1). See also ps.-Herodian 152, ps.-Zonaras 1856, and Hesychius chi617 (nominative case).
[2] See scholia to Homer, Odyssey 2.315; Porphyrius, Quaestiones Homericae 82.19.
[3] The word xei=sqai is either the present middle/passive infinitive of xe/w ("pour, heap up") or that of xa/w, a later Greek equivalent of xwre/w used elsewhere in the Suda (cf. chi 224). See also Etymologicum Magnum 813.30. (Either way, the etymology is unconvincing.)