κύμῑνον

Grammatical information: n.

Meaning: `cummin' (Hp., Sophr., com.), ;

Dialectal forms: Myc. kumino \/kuminon\/.

Compounds: as 1. member e.g. in κυμινο-πρίστης "cummin-splitter", i.e. `skin-flint' (Arist., corn.).

Derivatives: κυμιν-ώδης `c.-like' (Thphr.), - ινος `of c.', - ᾶς `c.-seller' (inscr. Jaffa), - εύω `sprinkle with c.' (Orac. ap. Luc.).

Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]X [probably]

Etymology: Sem. LW [loanword]; cf. Hebr. kammōn, Akkad. kamūnu etc. (Lewy Fremdw. 38), but Kretschmer KZ 29, 440 found them rather in the plant-names κάμων (Nic.) and σκαμ(μ)ωνία, - ώνιον (com., Nic.) `kind of bindweed'. "Vielleicht ist mit Lewy eine zwiefache Entlehnung anzunehmen." (Frisk). Cf. also Grimme Glotta 14, 19. Ruijgh thought that the word, with its typical Pre-Greek suffix -ῑν-, was in first instance a loan from Anatolia (or the Aegaean) and Semitic could have it from the same source ( Lingua 58, 1982, 209), cf. Fur. 187 n. 18 on βράθυ. See E. Masson, Emprunts sémit. 51. - Lat. LW [loanword] cumīnum; from there the modern Europ. forms (Schrader-Nehring Reallex. 1, 655).

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Grammatical information: n.

Meaning: `sage, Salvia Horminum' (Thphr.).

Other forms: - ος (also - μῖν-) m.

Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]

Etymology: Formation like σέλῑνον, κύμῑνον, καρδαμί̄νη, βολβί̄νη a.o. (Chantraine Form. 204, Schwyzer 491), so either like the two first mentioned a loan, or from ὅρμος, what must be semantically argued, or evt. with Strömberg Pflanzennamen 93 from ὁρμή `assault, onrush', as the plant was used as sexual stimulant. Worthless root-etymology by Holthausen IF 25, 153: as medicinal herb ( salvia: salvus) to Av. haraiti `observes, protects' (IE *sér-eti) etc.; further cognates in WP. 2, 498f., Pok. 910, W.-Hofmann s. servō (not to Ἥρα, ἥρως). - No doubt Pre-Greek, as the other words with -ῑν- (not in Furnée).

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κύμῑνον, κύμινον

cummin: neut nom /voc /acc sg

Grammatical information: f.

Meaning: `kind of scammony, Convulvulus scammonia' (Eub., Arist.)

Other forms: Also ἀσκαμωνία (Gp.)

Derivatives: - ώνιον (Nic. Al. 565) `juice of this plant', -νῑ́της οἶνος (Dsc., Plin.), also κάμων (Nic. Al. 484).

Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin] (V)

Etymology: To be rejected Carnoy REGr. 71, 99; on the formation Chantraine Form. 208. -- The variants prove a Pre-Greek word.

See also: (Not to κύμῑνον.)

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