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βύσταξ

bustax

moustache

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What it meant

1. βύσταξ · bystax — Beekes

βύσταξ [π|.] ‘moustache’ (Antiph. 44.4 apud Ath. 4, 143a). *VAR Cf. Bbotaya: πώγωνα ‘beard’ (H.). *ETYM The explanation of βύσταξ as adapted from μύσταξ after Buvéw is highly improbable. Rather, it is evidently cognate with μύσταξ, the words being of Pre250 βύτανα Greek origin because of the alternation B ~ μ (Fur.: 116, 218; cf. «/ γ, see also Giintert 1914: 128). For further variants, see » μύσταξ. — [Beekes, s.v. βύσταξ, p. 296]

2. βύσταξ · bystax — Chantraine

βύσταξ : m. «moustache » (hapax, Antiph. 44,4), cf. βύσταγα πώγωνα (Hsch.). — [Chantraine, s.v. βύσταξ, p. 216]

3. βύσταξ · bystax — Frisk

βύσταξ m.’ “Schnurrbart” (Antiph.), βύσταγα " πώγωνα H. — Wahrscheinlich aus μύσταξ nach βυνέω umgebildet, vgl. βῦσαι" Erudelvaı, φορτῶσαι, κρύψαι H. Nach Güntert Reimwortbildungen 128 Fremdwort. — [Frisk, s.v. βύσταξ, p. 310]

4. βύσταξ · bystax — LSJ

= μύσταξ, Antiph. 44.4.

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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