μύσκλοι

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Unknown. Compare μύκης (múkēs), μόσχος (móskhos), μίσχος (mískhos), μασχάλη (maskhálē).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mýs.kloi̯/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈmys.kly/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈmys.kly/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈmys.kly/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈmis.kli/

Noun

μύσκλοι • (múskloi)

Hesychius gives the definition as: stalks of dried up fig trees.

Further reading

“μύσκλοι”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “μύκης”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 977, according to whom from the same Pre-Greek root as μύκης (múkēs)
Hesychius' Lexicon: μ

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