- μέρμις
- μέρμις, -ῑθοςGrammatical information: f.Meaning: `band, string' (κ 23, D. S. 3, 21), dat. pl. -θαις (Agatharch. 47); acc. sg. -θον (H.), nom. -θος (Zonar.).Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]Etymology: Formation like ἕλμις (μέρμινθα v. l. D. S. l. c. like ἕλμινθος etc.), ὄρνις γέλγις a. o. (Schwyzer 510, Chantraine 366). Further analysis unknown; a suffixal -μι- (with θ-enlargement) is possible; broken reduplication may be considered. A primary verb mer- `twist, bind' (WP. 2, 272 a. Pok. 733) is nowhere attested; cognates have been supposed in μηρύω as well as in βρόχος and μάραθ(ρ)ον (s. vv.), both without further confirmation. For foreign (Pre-Greek) origin Chantraine l.c., Deroy Glotta 35, 191ff. Fur. 289 compares μήρινθος, σμήρινθος `string, thread' and further σμῆριγξ `hair', σμήριγγες πλεκταί, σειραί, βόστρυχοι H.Page in Frisk: 2,211
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