μίμαρκυς
Ancient Greek
Etymology
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 [script needed] (mark-, “to cut apart”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mí.mar.kys/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈmi.mar.kys/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈmi.mar.cys/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈmi.mar.cys/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈmi.mar.cis/
Noun
μῐ́μᾰρκῠς • (mímarkus) f (genitive μῐμᾰ́ρκῠος); third declension
- hare-soup or jugged hare, with the blood of the animal in it
Inflection
Third declension of ἡ μῐ́μᾰρκῠς; τῆς μῐμᾰ́ρκῠος (Attic)
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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Further reading
- “μίμαρκυς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- μίμαρκυς 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