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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Μυσός is possibly an exonym from μύσος (músos, “defilement, uncleanness”), as Mysians were described as being weak and subpar, which could be related to μῖσος (mîsos, “hatred”) or μαδάω (madáō, “I am wet, moist”), or a Pre-Greek word.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /myː.sós/ → /myˈsos/ → /miˈsos/
Noun
Μῡσός • (Mūsós) m (genitive Μῡσοῦ); second declension
- a Mysian
- an inhabitant of Mysia
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References
- “Μυσός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Μυσός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,017
- 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