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dellEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
From Middle English delle, del, from Old English dell (“small dale”), from Proto-West Germanic *dalljā, from Proto-Germanic *daljō. Cognate to Proto-Slavic *dolъ (“below, down; valley, pit”), Welsh dôl (“meadow, dale”) and English dale.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗dellEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text
Origin obscure. Originally thieves' cant. Possibly from dell (valley). Compare Dutch del (“trollop, floozie”).
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Chambers (1908)
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Are Greek mouse and muscle merely accidental homonyms?
The reviewed Liddell–Scott entry treats μῦς as one lexical entry with both rodent and body-muscle senses, and Modern Greek explicitly derives both learned senses from Ancient Greek.
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SOURCES
Liddell–Scott–Jones Greek-English Lexicon — κῆδος
Henry George Liddell · Robert Scott · Henry Stuart Jones · Scaife ATLAS editors / 1940
author or editorAUDIT EVERY USE ↗ἔτυμος — A Greek-English Lexicon
Henry George Liddell · Robert Scott · Henry Stuart Jones / 1940
author or editorAUDIT EVERY USE ↗ἐτήτυμος — A Greek-English Lexicon
Henry George Liddell · Robert Scott · Henry Stuart Jones / 1940
author or editorAUDIT EVERY USE ↗μῦς — Liddell and Scott Ancient Greek Dictionary
H. G. Liddell and R. Scott; Centre for the Greek Language editors / 2007
author or editorAUDIT EVERY USE ↗Liddell–Scott–Jones Greek-English Lexicon — κήδω and κήδομαι
Henry George Liddell · Robert Scott · Henry Stuart Jones · Scaife ATLAS editors / 1940
author or editorAUDIT EVERY USE ↗πρόσωπον — Liddell, Scott, Jones Ancient Greek Lexicon
Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, Henry Stuart Jones, and Perseus Editors / 1940
author or editorAUDIT EVERY USE ↗ἐτητυμία — A Greek-English Lexicon
Henry George Liddell · Robert Scott · Henry Stuart Jones / 1940
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ATTESTATION WITNESSES
Iliad, lament and grievous funeral rites
κῆδος / κῆδος / Homeric epic, source-reported
Liddell–Scott–Jones Greek-English Lexicon — κῆδοςreporting source / OPEN RECORD ↗Odyssey, care or concern for others
κῆδος / κῆδος / Homeric epic, source-reported
Liddell–Scott–Jones Greek-English Lexicon — κῆδοςreporting source / OPEN RECORD ↗Herodotus occurrence reported by the Liddell–Scott entry
μῦς / μυς / c. 430 BCE
μῦς — Liddell and Scott Ancient Greek Dictionaryreporting source / OPEN RECORD ↗Aeschylus, Helen as object of care with a marriage-sense play
κῆδος / κῆδος / Classical Athenian tragedy, source-reported
Liddell–Scott–Jones Greek-English Lexicon — κῆδοςreporting source / OPEN RECORD ↗Thucydides, contracting a daughter's marriage
κῆδος / κῆδος / Classical Greek historiography, source-reported
Liddell–Scott–Jones Greek-English Lexicon — κῆδοςreporting source / OPEN RECORD ↗Pindar, Doric singular variant in a death context
κῆδος / κῆδος / Archaic Greek lyric, source-reported
Liddell–Scott–Jones Greek-English Lexicon — κῆδοςreporting source / OPEN RECORD ↗SEARCH IS DISCOVERY, NOT PROOF
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