This word seems to display reduplication. A tempting similarity exists with a synonymous Germanic word: compare Old English mearh (“sausage”), Old Norse mǫrr (“the fat inside a slaughtered animal”) and Norwegian Nynorsk mòr (“kind of Norwegian sausage”). If related, it would have to be a very old anatomical expression of cattle-breeders, which is unlikely.
According to Neumann, this word is a loan from Hittite or another Anatolian language, while Furnée suggests a Pre-Greek origin, in view of the reduplication.
Unrelated are Latin murcus (“maimed”) and Hittite (mark-, “to cut apart”).
μῐ́μᾰρκῠς • (mímarkus) f (genitive μῐμᾰ́ρκῠος); third declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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| Nominative | ἡ μῐ́μᾰρκῠς hē mímarkus |
τὼ μῐμᾰ́ρκῠε tṑ mimárkue |
αἱ μῐμᾰ́ρκῠες hai mimárkues | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς μῐμᾰ́ρκῠος tês mimárkuos |
τοῖν μῐμᾰρκῠ́οιν toîn mimarkúoin |
τῶν μῐμᾰρκῠ́ων tôn mimarkúōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ μῐμᾰ́ρκῠῐ̈ / μῐμᾰ́ρκυι têi mimárkuï / mimárkui |
τοῖν μῐμᾰρκῠ́οιν toîn mimarkúoin |
ταῖς μῐμᾰ́ρκῠσῐ / μῐμᾰ́ρκῠσῐν taîs mimárkusi(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν μῐ́μᾰρκῠν tḕn mímarkun |
τὼ μῐμᾰ́ρκῠε tṑ mimárkue |
τᾱ̀ς μῐμᾰ́ρκῡς / μῐμᾰ́ρκῠᾰς tā̀s mimárkūs / mimárkuas | ||||||||||
| Vocative | μῐ́μᾰρκῠ mímarku |
μῐμᾰ́ρκῠε mimárkue |
μῐμᾰ́ρκῠες mimárkues | ||||||||||
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