- μυελός
- μυελόςGrammatical information: m.Meaning: `marrow' (Il.).Other forms: ep. ῡ metr. lengthening. Late Greek has μυαλός, rejected by Phrynichos.Compounds: Some compp., e.g. ἀ-μύελος `without marrow' (Arist.).Derivatives: μυελ-όεις `full of marrow' (Od.), -ώδης `marrow-like' (Arist.), -ινος `soft as marrow' (AP); μυελόομαι `be changed into marrow, consist of marrow' (LXX).Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]Etymology: On the formation cf. πιμελή `fat' with comparable meaning. Prob. to μυών `ball of muscles, knot' (s. μῦς) with n : l-variation as in ἀγκών : ἀγκάλη etc. (Specht Ursprung 84). Both the weak marrow and the weak muscles form an opposition to the hard knuckle. As in Latin by medulla, in Greek the old word for `marrow' in Skt. majján-, OHG mark etc. was replaced by μυελός (Porzig Gliederung 211). -- Wrong older interpretations were rejected by Bq. But the word has no further etymology; Chantraine Fom. 244 is prob. right that the word is Pre-Greek. Fur. 350 adduces μυαλός as evidence, but this may be recent and is unreliable.Page in Frisk: 2,264
Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό). Robert S.P.. 2010.