μελ-ύδριον

Grammatical information: f.

Meaning: `woollen skin, fleece, esp. of sheep a. goat' (ξ 530, Lyc., Paus.);

Other forms: more usual νάκος n. (Pi., Hdt., Simon., inscr.).

Compounds: As 1. member a.o. in νακο-δέψης m. `tenner' (Hp.), as 2. member in κατω-νάκη f. `coarse cloth, worn by slaves working on the field, with a front of sheepskin' (Ar.), prop. a bahuvrihi; on ἀρνακίς s. ἀρήν.

Derivatives: νακύριον δέρμα H.; formation unclear (hypothetical combinations by v. Blumenthal Hesychst. 14f.), perh. with Schmidt to be changed into νακύ\<δ\> ριον (like μελ-ύδριον a.o.; Chantraine Form. 72 f.).

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

Etymology: With νάκος: νάκη cf. νάπος: νάπη and the not rare abstract pairs like βλάβος: βλάβη (on this Bolelli Stud. itfilcl. NS. 24, 98ff.); νάκος like εἶρος, φᾶρος a.o., νάκη like λώπη a.o. -- Without immediate agreement outside Greek. Since Lidén IF 18, 410 f. one connects the in German. isolated OE næsc `soft leather like e.g. deer-skin', which through PGm. * naska-, -ō- may represent IE * nak-s-ko-, -ā-; here also OPr. nognan `leather', if for noknan from IE nāk-no- (Lidén Stud. 66 f.). More dubious is the connection with Goth. snaga m. ' ἱμάτιον', s. Lidén l.c. and Feist Vgl. Wb. w. lit. -- WP. 2, 316f., Pok. 754. Cf. νάσσω. Rather a Pre-Greek word; Fur. 294, 305; the form νακύριον may point in the same direction.