κύμῑνον

κύμῑνον

Grammatical information: n.

Meaning: `cummin' (Hp., Sophr., com.), ;

Dialectal forms: Myc. kumino \/kuminon\/.

Compounds: as 1. member e.g. in κυμινο-πρίστης "cummin-splitter", i.e. `skin-flint' (Arist., corn.).

Derivatives: κυμιν-ώδης `c.-like' (Thphr.), -ινος `of c.', -ᾶς `c.-seller' (inscr. Jaffa), -εύω `sprinkle with c.' (Orac. ap. Luc.).

Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]X [probably]

Etymology: Sem. LW [loanword]; cf. Hebr. kammōn, Akkad. kamūnu etc. (Lewy Fremdw. 38), but Kretschmer KZ 29, 440 found them rather in the plant-names κάμων (Nic.) and σκαμ(μ)ωνία, -ώνιον (com., Nic.) `kind of bindweed'. "Vielleicht ist mit Lewy eine zwiefache Entlehnung anzunehmen." (Frisk). Cf. also Grimme Glotta 14, 19. Ruijgh thought that the word, with its typical Pre-Greek suffix -ῑν-, was in first instance a loan from Anatolia (or the Aegaean) and Semitic could have it from the same source (Lingua 58, 1982, 209), cf. Fur. 187 n. 18 on βράθυ. See E. Masson, Emprunts sémit. 51. - Lat. LW [loanword] cumīnum; from there the modern Europ. forms (Schrader-Nehring Reallex. 1, 655).

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