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|etymtx=Grammatical information: m.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">the young of birds, also of other animals and man</b> (Il.); <b class="b2">yolk of an egg</b> (Arist.).<br />Other forms: also <b class="b3">νοσσός</b> (Schwyzer 253 w. lit.), Att. <b class="b3">νεοττός</b>.<br />Compounds: Some compp., e.g. <b class="b3">ν(ε)οσσο-τροφέω</b> (<b class="b3">-ττ-</b>) <b class="b2">rear young birds</b> (Ar.).<br />Derivatives: 1. Diminut.: <b class="b3">ν(ε)οσσίον</b>, <b class="b3">-ττ-</b> [[chicken]], also metaph. <b class="b2">yolk of an egg</b> (Ar., Arist., Thphr.); <b class="b3">-σσίς</b>, <b class="b3">-ττίς</b> f. <b class="b2">id.</b>, also as PN (com., Arist., AP), as designation of a shoe (Herod. 7, 57; prob. from the PN). -- 2. collective <b class="b3">ν(ε)οσσιή</b> (Ion.), <b class="b3">-ττιά</b> (Att.), <b class="b3">νοσσιά</b> (hell.) [[brood]], also [[lair]] (Herod.), [[beehive]] (LXX). -- 3. Denomin. verb <b class="b3">ν(ε)οσσεύω</b>, <b class="b3">-ττεύω</b> [[brood]], [[nestle]] (IA.) with <b class="b3">νεοττεία</b>, <b class="b3">-ττευσις</b> [[brooding]], [[nestle]] (Arist.). -- 4. PN <b class="b3">Νόσσος</b>, <b class="b3">Νοσσώ</b>, <b class="b3">Νοσσικᾶς</b> (inscr.).<br />Origin: XX [etym. unknown]<br />Etymology: Formation from <b class="b3">νέος</b>; cf. <b class="b3">περισσός</b>, <b class="b3">ἔπισσαι</b>, <b class="b3">μέτασσαι</b>. The last two are also semantically not far off; s. Schulze Kl. Schr. 675. To be rejected Brugmann IF 17, 351 ff.: from <b class="b3">*νεο-κι̯-ος</b> "(Germ.) Neulieger", compound with the zero grade of <b class="b3">κεῖμαι</b>. Cf. also Schwyzer 320, who calls it "unsicher"; DELG also keeps the possibility of a compound open. Unclear. - Prob. with a suffix -ti̯o- as in Hitt. apezzii̯as.

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