| Word | argilos |
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| Meaning | mouse |
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Homeric Greek: ἀγρός
‘field’ Homeric Greek: γαλέη ‘weasel’ Proto-Indo-European: *hₐeĝros ‘pasture, field’ Ancient Macedonian: ἄργος ‘field, plain, valley’ Attic Greek: γαλῆ ‘weasel, marten, polecat’ Albanian: arë ‘field’ |
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Stephanos of Byzantium ‘ύπό Θρακών ό μύς άργιλος καλείται’ Witczak convincingly proposes that the word means ‘field mouse’, from ἄρ- (‘field’) and -γιλος (‘mouse’). OInd. giri- (f.) and girikā- (f.) ‘mouse’, Ormuri gilak ‘rat’, Bakhtiari girza ‘rat’, NPers. dial. (Alamut) gerzū ‘mouse’. |
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