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The corpus record

σμῑκρός

smikros

is unexplained and (also) points to Pre-Greek origin

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What it meant

1. σμικρός · smikros — Beekes

σμικρός is unexplained and (also) points to Pre-Greek origin. The connection with the comparative μείων, assuming that the k was taken from the opposite μακρός, fails because σμικρός is clearly older: the latter cannot be combined with μείων (which belongs to Skt. minati ‘reduce’, etc. and has no s-mobile). Old alternation of suffixes in μικ-ρό-ς : μικ-υ-θός (Bloomfield Lang. 1 (1925): 94) is improbable. — [Beekes, s.v. σμικρός, p. 1003]

2. σμῑκρός · smikros — 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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