μέρμις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

The formation is similar to γέλγῑς (gélgīs), δέλλῑς (déllīs) and ὄρνῑς (órnīs). Cognates have been supposed in μηρύω (mērúō, “to wind up”) as well as in βρόχος (brókhos, “noose”) and μάραθον (márathon, “fennel”). The word may be of Pre-Greek origin and related to μήρινθος (mḗrinthos, “fishing line”) and μῆριγξ (mêrinx, “bristle, hair”) but compare Latvian mer̂ga, Proto-Slavic *merža (“net”), and possibly Lithuanian márška (“fishing net”).[1]

Pronunciation
 

Noun

μέρμῑς • (mérmīs) f (genitive μέρμῑθος); third declension

  1. cord, string, rope

Declension
Third declension of ἡ μέρμῑς; τῆς μέρμῑθος (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἡ μέρμῑς
hē mérmīs		 τὼ μέρμῑθε
tṑ mérmīthe		 αἱ μέρμῑθες
hai mérmīthes
Genitive τῆς μέρμῑθος
tês mérmīthos		 τοῖν μερμῑ́θοιν
toîn mermī́thoin		 τῶν μερμῑ́θων
tôn mermī́thōn
Dative τῇ μέρμῑθῐ
têi mérmīthi		 τοῖν μερμῑ́θοιν
toîn mermī́thoin		 ταῖς μέρμῑσῐ / μέρμῑσῐν
taîs mérmīsi(n)
Accusative τὴν μέρμῑθᾰ
tḕn mérmītha		 τὼ μέρμῑθε
tṑ mérmīthe		 τᾱ̀ς μέρμῑθᾰς
tā̀s mérmīthas
Vocative μέρμῑς
mérmīs		 μέρμῑθε
mérmīthe		 μέρμῑθες
mérmīthes
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.
  • Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-tʰs.

Descendants
  • → Translingual: Mermis

References
  1. Pokorny, Julius (1959) chapter 2084, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 2084

Further reading
  • “μέρμις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “μέρμις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “μέρμις”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • μέρμις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • μέρμις in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
  • 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
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