This word has been compared to Latin mūcrō (“sharp point”), Lithuanian mùšti (“to beat, strike, hit”) and Old English gemyscan (“to afflict, tease”). This seems a rather small basis for reconstructing an Indo-European root. Furnée accepts the comparison with Latin, but as a substrate word. The presence of ἀμύσχεσται (amúskhestai, “laceration of the flesh with claws”) shows a typical Pre-Greek variation, according to Beekes.
ἀμῠ́σσω • (amússō)
number | singular | dual | plural | ||||||||||
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first | second | third | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||
active | indicative | μῠ́ξω | μῠ́ξεις | μῠ́ξει | μῠ́ξετον | μῠ́ξετον | μῠ́ξομεν | μῠ́ξετε | μῠ́ξουσῐ(ν) | ||||
optative | μῠ́ξοιμῐ | μῠ́ξοις | μῠ́ξοι | μῠ́ξοιτον | μῠξοίτην | μῠ́ξοιμεν | μῠ́ξοιτε | μῠ́ξοιεν | |||||
middle | indicative | μῠ́ξομαι | μῠ́ξῃ, μῠ́ξει |
μῠ́ξεται | μῠ́ξεσθον | μῠ́ξεσθον | μῠξόμεθᾰ | μῠ́ξεσθε | μῠ́ξονται | ||||
optative | μῠξοίμην | μῠ́ξοιο | μῠ́ξοιτο | μῠ́ξοισθον | μῠξοίσθην | μῠξοίμεθᾰ | μῠ́ξοισθε | μῠ́ξοιντο | |||||
passive | indicative | μῠχθήσομαι | μῠχθήσῃ | μῠχθήσεται | μῠχθήσεσθον | μῠχθήσεσθον | μῠχθησόμεθᾰ | μῠχθήσεσθε | μῠχθήσονται | ||||
optative | μῠχθησοίμην | μῠχθήσοιο | μῠχθήσοιτο | μῠχθήσοισθον | μῠχθησοίσθην | μῠχθησοίμεθᾰ | μῠχθήσοισθε | μῠχθήσοιντο | |||||
active | middle | passive | |||||||||||
infinitive | μῠ́ξειν | μῠ́ξεσθαι | μῠχθήσεσθαι | ||||||||||
participle | m | μῠ́ξων | μῠξόμενος | μῠχθησόμενος | |||||||||
f | μῠ́ξουσᾰ | μῠξομένη | μῠχθησομένη | ||||||||||
n | μῠ́ξον | μῠξόμενον | μῠχθησόμενον | ||||||||||
Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For conjugation in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal conjugation.
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