môlos
môlos μῶλος Drucheinander, (kriegerisch) gemengt) ;
Connection with Latin mōlēs (“mass; heap, pile”) is possible but by no means certain: the original meaning would then be “effort, labor”. The word has also been connected to Proto-Germanic *mōjaną (“to tire”) and Proto-Slavic *majati (“to beckon, wave”), all from Proto-Indo-European *meh₃-(“to get tired, be a burden”); this is tentatively supported by Beekes. Alternatively, the linguists José Marcos Macedo and Daniel Kölligan suggest that the term could be derived from *mṓlh₃-s, a root noun to *melh₃- (“to come”), whence also Ancient Greek βλώσκω (blṓskō).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mɔ̂ː.los/ → /ˈmo.los/ → /ˈmo.los/
Noun
μῶλος • (môlos) m (genitive μώλου); second declension
- toil and moil of war, turmoil