μύκης: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=-ητος<br />Grammatical information: m.<br />Meaning: [[mushroom]], also metaph., e.g. <b class="b2">mushroomlike excrescence, any knobber round body, cab or cap at the end of a scabbard, snuff of a lamp-wick, membrum virile</b> (IA.).<br />Other forms: gen. also <b class="b3">-ου</b> (Ion. <b class="b3">-εω</b>), pl. <b class="b3">-αι</b><br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">μυκήτ-ινος</b> [[made of mushrooms]] (Luc.), [[μυκόομαι]] [[become like a mushroom]], [[spongy]] (medic.).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: Formation in <b class="b3">-η(τ</b>)- (Schwyzer 462 u. 499) from a noun, which may be found in Lat. [[mūcus]] [[snivel]], [[mucus of the nose]]; on the meaning cf. Slav., e.g. Sloven. <b class="b2">glíva</b> [[agaric]] to Lith. <b class="b2">gleĩvės</b> [[slime]] etc. (Schulze KZ 45, 189 = Kl. Schr. 619); further s. [[μύσσομαι]]. -- Diff. (hesitating) Strömberg Pflanzennamen 28: from [[μῦς]] [[mouse]] because of the grey colour as Fr. [[gris souris]] name of a mushroom. But [[μύκης]] is not only a grey mushroom, and its formation is unclear. Fur. 298 thinks correctly that the meanings of this word cannot be all explained from a derivation from [[μύσσομαι]] [[snuff]], [[blow one's nose]] and assumes a basic meaning [[prominent]], [[extremity]]. He connects the word with <b class="b3">μύσκλοι οἱ πυθμένες τῶν ξηρῶν σύκων Η</b>, which implies that the word is Pre-Greek. On the suffix <b class="b3">-ης</b>, <b class="b3">-ητος</b> (in Pre-Greek) s. p. 172 n. 118.