μῡκάομαι

μῡκάομαι

Grammatical information: v.

Meaning: `low, bellow', of cattle, metaph. `roar, creak' (mostly poet.).

Other forms: aor. μῠκεῖν (Il.), μῡκήσασθαι (Ar.), perf. μέμῦκα (Il.).

Compounds: Also with prefix, e.g. ἀμφι-, παρα-, (κ 413), -- As 2. member e.g. in ἐρί-μῡκος `(bel)lowing loudly' (Hom.). The pair μῠκεῖν : μέμῡκα agrees with κρᾰγεῖν : κέκρᾱ-γα, λακεῖν : λέληκα a.o.; to these came after the intensives the present μυκάομαι with the innovation μυκήσασθαι (βέβρῡχα: βρῡχάομαι; Fraenkel Nom. ag. 2, 95 n. 3 [p. 96]); on the middle diathesis Schwyzer-Debrunner 227.

Derivatives: Nom. actionis : μῡκ-ηθμός m. `the bellowing' (Il.; Chantraine Form. 137, Porzig Satzinhalte 236), -ημα `id.' (E., Arist., Call.), -ησις `id.' (Arist.); backformation μυκή `id.' (A. R.). Nom. agentis: μυκ-ητής, Dor. -ατάς `the bellowing' (Theoc.), -ήτωρ `id.' (Nonn.), -ητίαι σεισμοί (Arist.; "σείοντες την γῆν μετὰ βρόμου"; cf. on βρασματίας s. βράσσω); μυκάμων `bellowing' (Hymn. Is.). Adj. μυκητικός `bellowing' (Corn., S. E.). Adv. μυκηδόν `with bellowing' (unknown. poet POxy. 864, 22).

Origin: IE [Indo-European] [751] *muH- `bellow'

Etymology: The Greek verb has immediate agreements in Balto-Slavic and Germanic area: Lith. mūkiù, mū̃kti `bellow', Slav., e.g. Russ. myčátь, Ukr. múkaty, MHG mūhen `id.'; besides with IE *g Lat. mūgiō etc., s. 2. μύζω. WP. 2, 310, Pok. 751 f.; cf Fraenkel and Vasmer s.vv., Lidén GHÅ 40 (1934): 3, 35 ff (for Germ., esp. the Nord., important).

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