μίμαρκυς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

This word seems to display reduplication. A tempting similarity exists with a synonymous Germanic word: compare Old English mearh (“sausage”), Old Norse mǫrr (“the fat inside a slaughtered animal”) and Norwegian Nynorsk mòr (“kind of Norwegian sausage”). If related, it would have to be a very old anatomical expression of cattle-breeders, which is unlikely.

According to Neumann, this word is a loan from Hittite or another Anatolian language, while Furnée suggests a Pre-Greek origin, in view of the reduplication.

Unrelated are Latin murcus (“maimed”) and Hittite [script needed] (mark-, “to cut apart”).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mí.mar.kys/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.mar.kys/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.mar.cys/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.mar.cys/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.mar.cis/

Noun

μῐ́μᾰρκῠς • (mĭ́mărkŭs) f (genitive μῐμᾰ́ρκῠος); third declension

hare-soup or jugged hare, with the blood of the animal in it

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ μῐ́μᾰρκῠς; τῆς μῐμᾰ́ρκῠος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ μῐ́μᾰρκῠς hē mĭ́mărkŭs	τὼ μῐμᾰ́ρκῠε tṑ mĭmắrkŭe	αἱ μῐμᾰ́ρκῠες hai mĭmắrkŭes
Genitive	τῆς μῐμᾰ́ρκῠος tês mĭmắrkŭos	τοῖν μῐμᾰρκῠ́οιν toîn mĭmărkŭ́oin	τῶν μῐμᾰρκῠ́ων tôn mĭmărkŭ́ōn
Dative	τῇ μῐμᾰ́ρκῠῐ̈ / μῐμᾰ́ρκυι têi mĭmắrkŭĭ̈ / mĭmắrkui	τοῖν μῐμᾰρκῠ́οιν toîn mĭmărkŭ́oin	ταῖς μῐμᾰ́ρκῠσῐ / μῐμᾰ́ρκῠσῐν taîs mĭmắrkŭsĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν μῐ́μᾰρκῠν tḕn mĭ́mărkŭn	τὼ μῐμᾰ́ρκῠε tṑ mĭmắrkŭe	τᾱ̀ς μῐμᾰ́ρκῡς / μῐμᾰ́ρκῠᾰς tā̀s mĭmắrkūs / mĭmắrkŭăs
Vocative	μῐ́μᾰρκῠ mĭ́mărkŭ	μῐμᾰ́ρκῠε mĭmắrkŭe	μῐμᾰ́ρκῠες mĭmắrkŭes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Ancient Greek

Etymology

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