The corpus record

μνόος

mnoos

soft down

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What it meant

1. μνόος · mnoos — Beekes

μνόος, μνοῦς [m.] ‘soft down’ (on young birds) (Ηρ. Ar., AP). 42> eETYM Rhyming word with χνόος, χνοῦς [m.] ‘down, foam, crust’. On the other hand, cf. pviov ‘seaweed’. Is μνόος a cross from these two? See » μνίον, — [Beekes, s.v. μνόος, p. 1011]

2. μνόος · mnoos — Frisk

μνόος, μνοῦς m. “weicher Flaum’ (Hp., Ar., AP). — Reimwort zu χνόος, χνοῦς m. “Flaum, Schaum, Kruste’; vgl. anderseits uviov ‘Seemoos’. Somit Kreuzung? — Mechanische Stammanalyse (Wechsel ὁ : ou) bei Specht Ursprung 146. — [Frisk, s.v. μνόος, p. 1219]

3. μνόος · mnoos — LSJ

fine, soft down

fine, soft down, as on young birds, Ar. Fr. 258, Hp. Mul. 1.61, AP 5.120 (Phld.).

II a sweetmeat

a sweetmeat, Ephipp. 13.5 (codd. Ath., s. v. l.).

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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