Ancient Greek

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Etymology

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Stated to be a loan from Proto-Iranian, comparing Ossetian мӕсыг (mæsyg, tower). However, according to Brust, this must be regarded as uncertain. Furnée follows a proposal by Kretschmer, that the word is from a non-Indo-European substrate source.

However, compare Old Church Slavonic сꙑнъ (synŭ, tower) which is considered to be borrowed from Turkic.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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μόσσῡν (móssūnm (genitive μόσσῡνος); third declension

  1. wooden house or tower
  2. palisade, wooden fence
  3. slip for shipbuilding

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