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|etymtx=Grammatical information: v.<br />Meaning: [[meckern]], [[bleat]], of sheep, also of a hare and of a horse, in the formular verse <b class="b3">κὰδ</b>' <b class="b3">δ</b>' <b class="b3">ἔπεσ</b>' <b class="b3">ἐν κονίῃσι μακών</b>, of a deer, boar, also of a man (Phryn. PS, Procop., sch., H.)<br />Other forms: <b class="b3">μηκάζω</b> (Nic.), perf. <b class="b3">μέμηκα</b> only in pret. <b class="b3">ἐμέμηκον</b> (ι 439), and in ptc. <b class="b3">μεμηκώς</b> (K 362), f. <b class="b3">μεμακυῖαι</b> (Δ 435), aor. ptc. <b class="b3">μακών</b> (P469, κ163).<br />Derivatives: Here, after <b class="b3">κεμάς</b> and other animal names (cf. Risch $ 52 b; not from the late <b class="b3">μηκάομαι</b>), <b class="b3">μηκάς</b> f. [[bleating]], in Hom. only in plur. of <b class="b3">αἶγες</b>, later (S., E.) also of <b class="b3">ἄρνες</b> and subst. = <b class="b3">αἴξ</b>. Late derivv.: <b class="b3">μηκ-ασμός</b> (Plu., Poll.), <b class="b3">-ηθμός</b> (Opp.), <b class="b3">-ή</b> (Ael., Sch.) [[bleating]], <b class="b3">-ητικός</b> [[bleating]] (sch.).<br />Origin: ONOM [onomatopoia, and other elementary formations] <b class="b2">*mek-</b> [[bleat]]<br />Etymology: The pair <b class="b3">μέμηκα</b>: <b class="b3">μακεῖν</b> (<b class="b3">μακών</b>) agrees with <b class="b3">λέληκα</b> : <b class="b3">λακεῖν</b> (with comparable meaning), <b class="b3">κέκραγα</b> : <b class="b3">κραγεῖν</b> a.o.; to an old intensive perfect and an also old thematic aorist several presents were created: <b class="b3">μηκάζω</b>, <b class="b3">-άομαι</b>, <b class="b3">λάσκω</b>, <b class="b3">κράζω</b> etc.; cf. Schwyzer 683, 722 n. 2, 748, 770 a. 777, for Hom. Chantraine Gramm. hom. 1, 389; 426; 438, on <b class="b3">μακών</b> also Leumann Hom. Wörter 235 n. 31. -- Onomatopoetic formation, starting from the sound-imitation <b class="b3">μη</b> ([[mē]]) and with many partly genetic, partly elementary cognate agreements, e.g. MHG [[meckatzen]] 'bleat', [[mecke]] <b class="b2">he-goat</b>, Lith. <b class="b2">mekčióti</b>, <b class="b2">mekénti</b> <b class="b2">id.</b>, Lat. [[miccīre]] <b class="b2">id.</b>, Skt. (lex.) <b class="b2">meka-</b> m. <b class="b2">he-goat</b>, Arm. <b class="b2">mak'i</b> [[sheep]]. -- WP. 2, 256, Pok. 715f., W.-Hofmann a. Fraenkel s. vv. - The relation <b class="b3">μ</b>η-\/<b class="b3">μα-</b> cannot be of IE date; so it must be analogical. Pok. 715 posits <b class="b2">*mek-</b> which cannot explain the Greek forms.

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