μύρκος ὁ καθόλου μη δυνάμενος λαλεῖν

Grammatical information: adj.

Meaning: ἄφωνος H. (in alphab. wrong position).

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

Etymology: One compares Skt. mū́ka- `dumb'. -- With dental μυττός (\< *-κι̯-?), μύτης, μύδος (H.), μύνδος (S. Fr. 1072, Lyc. 1375, Call. Fr.260; unterital. `with small ears', Rohlfs ByzZ 37, 58f.), μυναρός (H.) `id.'. On itself sands μύρκος ὁ καθόλου μη δυνάμενος λαλεῖν. Συρακούσιοι. ἐνεός, ἄφωνος H.; μυρικᾶς ἄφωνος, ἐν ἑαυτῳ̃ ἔχων ο μέλλει πράττειν H. (cf. v. Blumenthal Hesychst. 42). -- From sound imitating mū, s. μύω (?); on the dental-formations cf. Lat. mūtus, s. further W.-Hofmann on mūtus; with μύνδος (s.v.) Arm. munǰ `dumb' (\< *mun(d)i̯os?); s. auch 1. mundus. With μύρκος agrees formally Lat. murcus `mutilated', esp. of him, who, so as not to become soldier, cuts off his thumbs; it could be a loan from Lat. in Sicil. (rather than the other way round), s. W.-Hofmann s.v. - μύνδος may have prenasal. beside μύδος (and must therefore be retained; against Latte, whose note is not clear to me). I think that μυναρός is a misreading for *μυνδρος. The other forms cannot be easyly fitted in. Continues μυρικ-ᾶς a form *mur^y-k-? - The group is very unclear. (Do the the words with μυ(ν)δ- belong here?)

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