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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Unexplained. The connection with Old Armenian քամեմ (kʻamem, “to press (out)”) is formally possible but it is incompatible with the probable basic meaning of the Greek word, wicker. The same holds with other supposed cognates like Lithuanian kāmanos (“harness”), Russian ком (kom, “clump”) and Middle High German hemmen (“to restrain, hamper”). Furnée suggests, instead, a derivation from a Pre-Greek source common to χάβος (khábos) and χαμόν (khamón).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɛː.mós/ → /ciˈmos/ → /ciˈmos/
Noun
κημός • (kēmós) m (genitive κημοῦ); second declension
- muzzle put on a led horse
- Synonyms: πνιγεύς (pnigeús), φιμός (phimós)
- nosebag for horses
- Synonym: χιλωτήρ (khilōtḗr)
- cloth used by bakers to cover the nose and the mouth
- weely, a wicker vessel
- funnel shaped top of the voting urn
- female ornament
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Further reading
- “κημός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κημός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κημός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “κημός”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 688–689