σκαμμωνία

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Ancient Greek

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Unknown. Noting its byform κάμων (kámōn)—attested in the Alexipharmaca, 484, of the Anatolian-born Nicander—, Paul Kretschmer 1888 explained it as the same word as the Semitic borrowing κύμινον (kúminon, cumin), considering that cumin is also purgative—said also stimulant, laxative, even abortive—in large quantities, proferring Neo-Greek examples for this #σκ-/#κ- variation. Robert Beekes cares not about this variation and instead adduces the variation #ασκ-/#σκ- as an indicator of Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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σκαμμωνίᾱ (skammōníāf (genitive σκαμμωνίᾱς); first declension

  1. scammony

Inflection

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Descendants

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References

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  • Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume II, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1341
  • Frisk, Hjalmar (1970) “κύμῑνον”, in Griechisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume II, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 49, and Frisk, Hjalmar (1970) “σκαμμωνία”, in Griechisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume II, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 717
  • Kretschmer, Paul (1888) “Ueber den dialekt der attischen vaseninschriften”, in Zeitschrift für vergleichende Sprachforschung auf dem Gebiete der Indogermanischen Sprachen[1] (in German), volume 29, pages 440–441