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|etymtx=-ιθος<br />Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: [[band]], [[string]] (κ 23, D. S. 3, 21), dat. pl. <b class="b3">-θαις</b> (Agatharch. 47); acc. sg. <b class="b3">-θον</b> (H.), nom. <b class="b3">-θος</b> (Zonar.).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: Formation like [[ἕλμις]] ([[μέρμινθα]] [[varia lectio|v.l.]] D. S. l. c. like [[ἕλμινθος]] etc.), <b class="b3">ὄρνις γέλγις</b> a. o. (Schwyzer 510, Chantraine 366). Further analysis unknown; a suffixal <b class="b3">-μι-</b> (with <b class="b3">θ-</b>enlargement) is possible; broken reduplication may be considered. A primary verb <b class="b2">mer-</b> [[twist]], [[bind]] (WP. 2, 272 a. Pok. 733) is nowhere attested; cognates have been supposed in [[μηρύω]] as well as in [[βρόχος]] and <b class="b3">μάραθ(ρ)ον</b> (s. vv.), both without further confirmation. For foreign (Pre-Greek) origin Chantraine l.c., Deroy Glotta 35, 191ff. Fur. 289 compares [[μήρινθος]], [[σμήρινθος]] [[string]], [[thread]] and further [[σμῆριγξ]] [[hair]], <b class="b3">σμήριγγες πλεκταί</b>, [[σειραί]], [[βόστρυχοι]] H.