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μέσκος

meskos

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What it meant

1. μέσκος · meskos — Beekes

μέσκος [m.]? - κῴδιον, δέρμα. Νίκανδρος ‘skin, fleece (Nic. = Fr. 19} (H.). «ἣν Orient.> *ETYM An Oriental loanword acc. to Lewy 1895: 131, Justi ΓΕ Anz. 17: 125: cf. Aram. megka, Assyr. masku, OP maka, MP and Arm. mask ‘hide, skin, soft leather’, etc. Did » néoxoc arise from here by contamination with πέκος (Gtintert 1914: 145f.)? Latte simply reads πέσκος instead of μέσκος. — [Beekes, s.v. μέσκος, p. 985]

2. μέσκος · meskos — Chantraine

μέσκος : κῴδιον, δέρμα, Νίκανδρος (Hsch.) ; on ἃ fait de cette glose le fr. 119 de Nicandre. Les étymologistes ont expliqué le mot comme emprunt oriental, οἵ. aram. me$kä, accad. maëku, v. perse mask « peau », cf. Lewy, Fremdwôrter 131. Mais Latte dans son Hsch. croit le — 688 — lemme corrompu et pense que la glose se rapporte à πέσκος (Nic. Th. 549). — [Chantraine, s.v. μέσκος, p. 705]

3. μέσκος · meskos — LSJ

= κῴδιον, Nic. Fr. 119.

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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