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μῆνιγξ
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See also: Μῆνιγξ
Ancient Greek
Etymology
The semantic parallel with words like Latin membrāna (“membrane”) and Balto-Slavic words like Latvian miesa (“flesh”), Russian мя́со (mjáso, “meat”) and Polish mięso (“meat”), all ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *mems- (“flesh, meat”), is striking. However, Beekes says the unexplained -ν-, together with the suffix -ιγγ-, clearly points to a Pre-Greek word.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mɛ̂ː.niŋks/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈme̝.niŋks/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈmi.niŋks/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈmi.niŋks/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈmi.niŋks/
Noun
μῆνῐγξ • (mênĭnx) f (genitive μήνῐγγος); third declension
Inflection
Derived terms
- μηνῐ́γγῐον (mēnĭ́ngĭon, diminutive)
- μηνῐγγότρωτος (mēnĭngótrōtos)
- μηνῐγγοφῠ́λᾰξ (mēnĭngophŭ́lăx)
Descendants
References
- “μῆνιγξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Further reading
- μῆνιγξ in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- μῆνιγξ in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007), Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- 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
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