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1 μόσσυν
μόσσυν, -ῡνοςGrammatical information: m.Meaning: `tower-like builtding of wood' (X., A. R., Call., D. H.), also of other wood-constuctions (Lyc.).Other forms: dat. pl. - νοιςDerivatives: Μοσσύν-οικοι m. pl. `inhabitant of the μόσσυνες', name of a people south of the Pontos Euxeinos (Hecat., Hdt., X., Arist.); μοσσυνικοί ξύλινοι πίνακες μεγάλοι, ὥστε ἐν αὐτοῖς καὶ ἄλφιτα μάσσειν H.; also as ethnicon in μοσσυνικὰ μαζονομεῖα (Ar. Fr. 417), cf. H.Origin: LW [a loanword which is (probably) not of Pre-Greek origin] Iran.XEtymology: LW [loanword] from Iranian; cf. Westosset. masug `turris' ; s. Lidén Strena philol. Upsal. (1922) 393ff., and Schwyzer 488 w. n. 4. To be rejected Kretschmer Glotta 22, 112 (preIE.), but accepted by Fur. 340. From the same source prob. also Slav. synъ ' πύργος' (Machek Listy filol. 72, 75f.); also Bonner, Cl. Qu. 46(1952)203.Page in Frisk: 2,258-259Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό) > μόσσυν
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