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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Unknown. Compare μύκης (múkēs), μόσχος (móskhos), μίσχος (mískhos), μασχάλη (maskhálē).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mýs.kloi̯/ → /ˈmys.kly/ → /ˈmis.kli/
Noun
μύσκλοι • (múskloi)
- Hesychius gives the definition as: stalks of dried up fig trees.
Further reading
- “μύσκλοι”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “μύκης”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 977, according to whom from the same Pre-Greek root as μύκης (múkēs)
- Hesychius' Lexicon: μ