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]