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|etymtx=Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">poppy, Papaver somniferum, poppy-head</b> (Θ 306), meatph. of poppy-like objects, e.g. <b class="b2">ink-bag of the cuttle-fish</b> (m., Arist.).<br />Other forms: Dor. Arc. [[μάκων]], <b class="b3">-ωνος</b>.<br />Compounds: <b class="b3">μηκωνο-φόρος</b> (sc. [[γῆ]]) f. <b class="b2">poppy-bearing country</b> (pap.).<br />Derivatives: 1. name of poppy-like plants (Euphorbia, wild lettuce): <b class="b3">μηκών-ιον</b> (Hp., Thphr.; also = [[opium]] [Phld.]), <b class="b3">-ίς</b> f. (Nic., inscr., pap.). <b class="b3">-ῖτις</b> (Gal., Redard 74; also name of a stone [Plin.], Redard 57). 2. adj. <b class="b3">μηκών-ειος</b> [[spiced with poppy]] (Philostr.), n. [[opium]] (S. E., sch.), f. <b class="b3">-ίς</b> (Alcm.), <b class="b3">-ικός</b> [[poppy-like]] (Thphr.). 3. Dimin. [[μηκωνάριον]] (Androm. ap. Gal.).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: Formation like [[βλήχων]] a. o. (Chantraine Form. 162). Clearly related to the Slav. and Germ. word for [[poppy]]: Slav., e.g. Russ. CSl. [[makъ]], Russ. [[mak]] (old <b class="b3">ο-</b>stem); Germ., e.g. OHG [[maho]], MHG [[mahen]], [[mān]]; besides with gramm. change OHG [[mago]], OSw. [[val-moghi]] (<b class="b2">val-</b> < <b class="b2">*u̯alha-</b> [[torpor]]) a. o. Notable are both the gramm. change and the short vowel against Gr. <b class="b3">-α-</b>, both of which can be interpreted as pointing to old. cognates. As acc. to botanists the poppy originates from the Mediterranean, it must be an already IE loan of a [[Wanderwort]]. WP. 2, 225 (with a quite doubtful root connection), Pok. 698, Schrader-Nehring Reallex. 2, 68 f., Machek Ling. Posn. 2, 158, Fraenkel Lit. et. Wb. s. <b class="b2">aguonà</b>. Fur. 218 compares <b class="b3">βηκώνιον εἶδος βοτάνης</b> and concludes to a Pre-Greek form.