μυχός

The connection with Armenian մխեմ (mxem, “to insert; to immerse”) is obsolete and semantically doubtful. The group of Old Norse smjúga (“to slip in”) and Middle High German smiegen (“to nestle”) may theoretically derive from Proto-Indo-European *smeugʰ- like Greek, but the Germanic words may also go back to *smewk- and correspond to Lithuanian smùkti (“to glide away”). Furnée thinks that this noun is Pre-Greek, but without further arguments. One argument could be the gloss βύσσαλος (bússalos, “depth, abyss”), if it really belongs here; another gloss would be μοχοῖ (mokhoî, “within, inside”), with a vocalic interchange.

μῠχός • (mukhós) m (genitive μῠχοῦ); second declension

1. the inmost or furthest part of a place
2. recess, nook

Alternative neuter plural:

• “μυχός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “μυχός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• μυχός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• μυχός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • alcove idem, page 22.
  • arbour idem, page 38.
  • bay idem, page 65.
  • bend idem, page 73.
  • bower idem, page 92.
  • corner idem, page 174.
  • cove idem, page 179.
  • cranny idem, page 182.
  • creek idem, page 183.
  • haunt idem, page 388.
  • hiding-place idem, page 399.
  • inlet idem, page 442.
  • inmost idem, page 442.
  • lurking idem, page 505.
  • niche idem, page 558.
  • nook idem, page 562.
  • recess idem, page 678.
  • resort idem, page 703.
  • retreat idem, page 707.
• 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