μυχός
Ancient Greek
Etymology
The connection with Armenian մխեմ (mxem, “to insert; to immerse”) is obsolete and semantically doubtful. The group of Old Norse smjúga (“to slip in”) and Middle High German smiegen (“to nestle”) may theoretically derive from Proto-Indo-European *smeugʰ- like Greek, but the Germanic words may also go back to *smewk- and correspond to Lithuanian smùkti (“to glide away”). Furnée thinks that this noun is Pre-Greek, but without further arguments. One argument could be the gloss βύσσαλος (bússalos, “depth, abyss”), if it really belongs here; another gloss would be μοχοῖ (mokhoî, “within, inside”), with a vocalic interchange.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /my.kʰós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /myˈkʰos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /myˈxos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /myˈxos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /miˈxos/
Noun
μῠχός • (mukhós) m (genitive μῠχοῦ); second declension
- the inmost or furthest part of a place
- recess, nook
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ μῠχός ho mukhós | τὼ μῠχώ tṑ mukhṓ | οἱ μῠχοί hoi mukhoí | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ μῠχοῦ toû mukhoû | τοῖν μῠχοῖν toîn mukhoîn | τῶν μῠχῶν tôn mukhôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ μῠχῷ tôi mukhôi | τοῖν μῠχοῖν toîn mukhoîn | τοῖς μῠχοῖς toîs mukhoîs | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν μῠχόν tòn mukhón | τὼ μῠχώ tṑ mukhṓ | τοὺς μῠχούς toùs mukhoús | ||||||||||
Vocative | μῠχέ mukhé | μῠχώ mukhṓ | μῠχοί mukhoí | ||||||||||
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Alternative neuter plural:
Case / # | Plural | ||||||||||||
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Nominative | τᾰ̀ μῠχᾰ́ tà mukhá | ||||||||||||
Genitive | τῶν μῠχῶν tôn mukhôn | ||||||||||||
Dative | τοῖς μῠχοῖς toîs mukhoîs | ||||||||||||
Accusative | τᾰ̀ μῠχᾰ́ tà mukhá | ||||||||||||
Vocative | μῠχᾰ́ mukhá | ||||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ἑπτάμυχος (heptámukhos)
- μυχάλμη (mukhálmē)
- μύχαλος (múkhalos)
- μυχάς (mukhás)
- μύχατος (múkhatos)
- μύχιος (múkhios)
- μυχόθεν (mukhóthen)
- μυχοίτατος (mukhoítatos)
- μυχόνοος (mukhónoos)
- μυχόομαι (mukhóomai)
- μυχόπεδον (mukhópedon)
- μυχοπόντιον (mukhopóntion)
- μυχορήμων (mukhorḗmōn)
- μυχώδης (mukhṓdēs)
- μυχῷ (mukhôi)
Further reading
- μυχός in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- μυχός in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- μυχός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- μυχός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- alcove idem, page 22.
- arbour idem, page 38.
- bay idem, page 65.
- bend idem, page 73.
- bower idem, page 92.
- corner idem, page 174.
- cove idem, page 179.
- cranny idem, page 182.
- creek idem, page 183.
- haunt idem, page 388.
- hiding-place idem, page 399.
- inlet idem, page 442.
- inmost idem, page 442.
- lurking idem, page 505.
- niche idem, page 558.
- nook idem, page 562.
- recess idem, page 678.
- resort idem, page 703.
- retreat idem, page 707.
- 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