μῦθος
Ancient Greek
noun
Definitions
- something said: word, speech, conversation
- tale, story, narrative,
Etymology
Derived from Proto-Indo-European *muHdʰ- derived from Egyptian mdt (speech, word, matter, affair).
Origin
Egyptian
mdt
Gloss
speech, word, matter, affair
Concept
Semantic Field
Speech and language
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
辞
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Euromyth English
- antimyth English
- countermyth English
- geomyth English
- monomyth English
- myth English
- mythbust English
- mytheme English
- mythic English
- mythical English
- mythicism English
- mythification English
- mythify English
- mythise English
- mythist English
- mythization English
- mythless English
- mythlike English
- mythmaker English
- mythmaking English
- mythoi English
- mythopoetical English
- mythopoiesis English
- mythos English
- mythscape English
- mythy English
- neuromyth English
- nonmyth English
- protomyth English
- submyth English
- mythos Latin
- mythus Latin
- mȳthos Latin
- mítosz Hungarian
- teremtésmítosz Hungarian
- mitizzare Italian
- mito Italian
- mitografia Italian
- mitografo Italian
- mitologia Italian
- mythe Dutch, Flemish
- миф Russian
- мифический Russian
- мысль Russian
- mito Spanish, Castilian
- μυθέομαι Ancient Greek
- μυθώδης Ancient Greek
- μῦθοι Ancient Greek
- πολύμυθος Ancient Greek
- *muHdʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- antimito Portuguese
- desmitificar Portuguese
- mitar Portuguese
- mito Portuguese
- mit Polish
- myśl Polish
- मिथ्या Sanskrit
- miotas Irish
- miotaseolaíoch Irish
- miotaseolaíocht Irish
- myte Danish
- *mysliti Proto-Slavic
- *myslь Proto-Slavic
- mysl Czech
- misao Serbo-Croatian
- mit Serbo-Croatian
- мисао Serbo-Croatian
- mite Catalan, Valencian
- mýta Icelandic
- मिथ्या Hindi
- mīts Latvian
- мисъл Bulgarian
- מיתוס Hebrew (modern)
- mdt Egyptian
- mdt m ḥr Egyptian
- mdt nfrt Egyptian
- mdw Egyptian
- мисла Macedonian
- мит Macedonian
- misel Slovene
- mysl Lower Sorbian
- mt Demotic
- mif Turkmen