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ἁμήκωα·

amekoa

cake

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What it meant

1. ἀμήκωα · amēkōa — Beekes

ἀμήκωα [46}.] - δεινά. Ταραντῖνοι ‘fearful (Tarantian) (H.). «Ὁ - *ETYM Acc. to von Blumenthal 1930: 14, the word is Messapian. A mere guess. Guns, -ητος [m.] ‘cake’ (Ar.). < 2p 88 ἀμία eDER Diminutive ἀμητίσκος ‘kind of cake’ (com.). eETYM Unknown. It has been compared to »ἄμιθα. The latter word has a reduplicated variant ἀμαμιθάδες, typical of substrate words, but it need not be cognate with ἄμης. — [Beekes, s.v. ἀμήκωα, p. 134]

2. ἀμήκωα᾽ · amēkōa᾽ — Frisk

ἀμήκωα᾽ δεινά. Ταραντῖνοι H. Nach v. Blumenthal Hesychst. 14 messapisch: a-mö-k-u-a, zu mö- “messen”. Äußerst hypothetisch. — [Frisk, s.v. ἀμήκωα᾽, p. 122]

3. ἁμήκωα· · hamēkōa· — LSJ

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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