μόσσυν

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Stated to be a loan from Proto-Iranian, comparing Ossetian мӕсыг (mæsyg, “tower”). However, according to Brust, this must be regarded as uncertain. Furnée follows a proposal by Kretschmer, that the word is from a non-Indo-European substrate source.

However, compare Old Church Slavonic сꙑнъ (synŭ, “tower”) which is considered to be borrowed from Turkic.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /mós.syːn/ → /ˈmos.syn/ → /ˈmo.sin/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mós.syːn/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈmos.syn/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈmos.syn/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈmos.syn/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.sin/

Noun

μόσσῡν • (móssūn) m (genitive μόσσῡνος); third declension

1. wooden house or tower
2. palisade, wooden fence
3. slip for shipbuilding

Declension

Third declension of ὁ μόσσῡν; τοῦ μόσσῡνος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ μόσσῡν ho móssūn	τὼ μόσσῡνε tṑ móssūne	οἱ μόσσῡνες hoi móssūnes
Genitive	τοῦ μόσσῡνος toû móssūnos	τοῖν μοσσῡ́νοιν toîn mossū́noin	τῶν μοσσῡ́νων tôn mossū́nōn
Dative	τῷ μόσσῡνῐ tôi móssūni	τοῖν μοσσῡ́νοιν toîn mossū́noin	τοῖς μόσσῡσῐ / μόσσῡσῐν toîs móssūsi(n)
Accusative	τὸν μόσσῡνᾰ tòn móssūna	τὼ μόσσῡνε tṑ móssūne	τοὺς μόσσῡνᾰς toùs móssūnas
Vocative	μόσσῡν móssūn	μόσσῡνε móssūne	μόσσῡνες móssūnes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Μοσσύνοικοι (Mossúnoikoi)

Further reading

• “μόσσυν”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “μόσσυν”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• μόσσυν in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• 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