μύσκος
Ancient Greek
editEtymology
editBeekes connects the word with ἀμυσχρός (amuskhrós, “undefiled, pure”), suggesting a Pre-Greek origin. The gloss is also been connected to μύσος (músos, “pollution, defilement”).
Pronunciation
edit- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mýs.kos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈmys.kos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈmys.kos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈmys.kos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈmis.kos/
Noun
editμύσκος • (múskos)
- Hesychius' gives the definition as: μίασμα (míasma, “stain, defilement”), κῆδος (kêdos, “care; anxiety, grief”).
Further reading
edit- “μύσκος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- 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
- Hesychius' Lexicon: μ