μύσκος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Beekes 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

 

• IPA^(key): /mýs.kos/ → /ˈmys.kos/ → /ˈmis.kos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mýs.kos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈmys.kos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈmys.kos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈmys.kos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈmis.kos/

Noun

μύσκος • (múskos)

1. Hesychius' gives the definition as: μίασμα (míasma, “stain, defilement”), κῆδος (kêdos, “care; anxiety, grief”).

Further reading

• “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