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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Formation like ζωμίλη (zōmílē), κονίλη (konílē) and μαρίλη (marílē). Probably from Pre-Greek, in view of the suffix -ῑλη. Both the alternative forms are due to confusion with μιστύλλω (mistúllō, “to cut up”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mys.tǐː.lɛː/ → /mysˈti.li/ → /misˈti.li/
Noun
μῠστῑ́λη • (mustī́lē) f (genitive μῠστῑ́λης); first declension
- piece of bread scooped out as a spoon, to sup soup or gravy with
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Further reading
- “μυστίλη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “μυστίλη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- μυστίλη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- 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