μίμαρκυς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

This word seems to display reduplication. A tempting similarity exists with a synonymous Germanic word: compare Old English mearh (“sausage”), Old Norse mǫrr (“the fat inside a slaughtered animal”) and Norwegian Nynorsk mòr (“kind of Norwegian sausage”). If related, it would have to be a very old anatomical expression of cattle-breeders, which is unlikely.

According to Neumann, this word is a loan from Hittite or another Anatolian language, while Furnée suggests a Pre-Greek origin, in view of the reduplication.

Unrelated are Latin murcus (“maimed”) and Hittite [script needed] (mark-, “to cut apart”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /mí.mar.kys/ → /ˈmi.mar.cys/ → /ˈmi.mar.cis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mí.mar.kys/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.mar.kys/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.mar.cys/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.mar.cys/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.mar.cis/

Noun

μῐ́μᾰρκῠς • (mímarkus) f (genitive μῐμᾰ́ρκῠος); third declension

1. hare-soup or jugged hare, with the blood of the animal in it

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ μῐ́μᾰρκῠς; τῆς μῐμᾰ́ρκῠος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ μῐ́μᾰρκῠς hē mímarkus	τὼ μῐμᾰ́ρκῠε tṑ mimárkue	αἱ μῐμᾰ́ρκῠες hai mimárkues
Genitive	τῆς μῐμᾰ́ρκῠος tês mimárkuos	τοῖν μῐμᾰρκῠ́οιν toîn mimarkúoin	τῶν μῐμᾰρκῠ́ων tôn mimarkúōn
Dative	τῇ μῐμᾰ́ρκῠῐ̈ / μῐμᾰ́ρκυι têi mimárkuï / mimárkui	τοῖν μῐμᾰρκῠ́οιν toîn mimarkúoin	ταῖς μῐμᾰ́ρκῠσῐ / μῐμᾰ́ρκῠσῐν taîs mimárkusi(n)
Accusative	τὴν μῐ́μᾰρκῠν tḕn mímarkun	τὼ μῐμᾰ́ρκῠε tṑ mimárkue	τᾱ̀ς μῐμᾰ́ρκῡς / μῐμᾰ́ρκῠᾰς tā̀s mimárkūs / mimárkuas
Vocative	μῐ́μᾰρκῠ mímarku	μῐμᾰ́ρκῠε mimárkue	μῐμᾰ́ρκῠες mimárkues
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “μίμαρκυς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• μίμαρκυς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN