μυελός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

The word has been linked with μυών (muṓn, “cluster of muscles”), beacuse they are both soft. According to Beekes and Chantraine, the noun is from Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /my.e.lós/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /my.ɛˈlos/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /my.eˈlos/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /my.eˈlos/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /mi.eˈlos/

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Noun

μυελός • (muelós) m (genitive μυελοῦ); second declension

(anatomy) marrow
inmost part, marrow

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ μυελός; τοῦ μυελοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ μυελός ho muelós	τὼ μυελώ tṑ muelṓ	οἱ μυελοί hoi mueloí
Genitive	τοῦ μυελοῦ toû mueloû	τοῖν μυελοῖν toîn mueloîn	τῶν μυελῶν tôn muelôn
Dative	τῷ μυελῷ tôi muelôi	τοῖν μυελοῖν toîn mueloîn	τοῖς μυελοῖς toîs mueloîs
Accusative	τὸν μυελόν tòn muelón	τὼ μυελώ tṑ muelṓ	τοὺς μυελούς toùs mueloús
Vocative	μυελέ muelé	μυελώ muelṓ	μυελοί mueloí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

ἀμύελος (amúelos)
μυελαυξής (muelauxḗs)
μυέλινος (muélinos)
μυελόεις (muelóeis)
μυελόθεν (muelóthen)
μυελόομαι (muelóomai)
μυελοποιός (muelopoiós)
μυελοτρεφής (muelotrephḗs)
μυελώδης (muelṓdēs)

Descendants

English: myelo-

References

μυελός in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
μυελός 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

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