μυδάω: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: v.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">be damp, deteriorate by dampness</b> (Ion. poet., Plb.)<br />Other forms: aor. <b class="b3">μυδῆσαι</b> (H.), perf. <b class="b3">μεμύδηκα</b> (Dsc.).<br />Compounds: Also with <b class="b3">περι-</b>, <b class="b3">δια-</b>.<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">μυδ-αλέος</b> (<b class="b3">δια-</b> μυδάω A. in lyr.) [[wet]], [[dripping]] (since Λ 54), <b class="b3">-αλόεις</b> <b class="b2">id.</b> (AP); <b class="b3">μύδος</b> m. [[wetness]], [[putrefaction]] (Nic.) with <b class="b3">μυδόεις</b> = <b class="b3">μυδαλέος</b> (Nic.), <b class="b3">μυδών</b>, <b class="b3">-ῶνος</b> m. <b class="b2">putrefaction of an ulcer</b> (Poll.). (<b class="b3">δια-)μύδησις</b> <b class="b2">id.</b> (medic.), <b class="b3">μυδαίνω</b>, also with <b class="b3">δια-</b>, [[moisten]], [[make wet]] (A. R., Nic.). -- To <b class="b3">μύδρος</b>, which may be cognate, and <b class="b3">μύζω</b> [[suck]], which was wrongly connected, s. v.<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]X [probably]<br />Etymology: Whether the late and rare <b class="b3">μύδος</b> must be sonsidered as the basis of the Greek group, may be doubted, s. below. As basis of the early attested <b class="b3">μυδαλέος</b> (as <b class="b3">ἰκμαλέος</b>, <b class="b3">ἀζαλέος</b> a.o.) may have served both a verb and a noun (cf. Debrunner IF 23, 5, Chantraine Form. 253 f.); beside this adj. with metr. lengthened (?) <b class="b3">υ</b> there was (after <b class="b3">αὑαλέος</b> : <b class="b3">αὑαίνω</b> ets.) <b class="b3">μυδαίνω</b> with analogical (?) long vowel (Schulze Q. 169 ff.). <b class="b3">μυδάω</b> too is ambiguous; it can be a denomin. of <b class="b3">μύδος</b>, but it can be understood as well as a deverbative formation (cf. Schwyzer 719, also 682 on <b class="b3">μαδάω</b>); then <b class="b3">μύδος</b> would be a late backformation. -- The comparable non-Greek words do not clarify the situation: Lith. <b class="b2">máudyti</b> [[bathe]] (full grade iterative, prob. with secondary [[d]] to Latv. [[maût]] [[submerge]], [[swim]]); Skt. <b class="b2">mudira-</b> m. [[cloud]] (class.), also [[frog]] and [[lover]] (lex.); in all meanings prob. from <b class="b2">múd-</b> f. [[lust]], [[joy]], <b class="b2">módate</b> <b class="b2">be gay</b>. The meaning makes the connection with <b class="b3">μυδάω</b> rather doubtful; one compares <b class="b2">mádati</b> also <b class="b2">be gay</b> beside <b class="b3">μαδάω</b> (s.v.). Further from Germ. Dutch [[mot]] <b class="b2">fine rain</b> a.o. -- WP. 2, 250f., Pok. 741 f., Fraenkel s. <b class="b2">maudà</b>, <b class="b2">máudyti</b>, <b class="b2">mudà</b>, Vasmer s. <b class="b2">múslitь</b>, W.-Hofmann s. 1. [[mundus]]; many more forms and lit. Cf. <b class="b3">μύσος</b> and <b class="b3">μυλάσασθαι</b>. - IE connection is uncertain. Lith. <b class="b2">mudrùs</b> [[lively]] cannot have IE <b class="b2">*mud-</b> which would have given a long [[u]] (so it must have been <b class="b2">*mudh-</b>). Fur. 249f., 259 connects <b class="b3">μύσος</b> and takes <b class="b3">δ</b>\/<b class="b3">σ</b> as Pre-Greek. The variation of the length can also be Pre-Greek.