Etymology

mussuck

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Today it means: an inflated skin-bag for water, variously said to be made from goats, from cows or from dogs, often by bheesties. Full definition →

Urdu مشک ← Hindi मशक ← Persian مشک
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The story

  1. Proto-Semitic · derived from*mašk-“skin”
  2. Old Persian · derived from𐎶𐏁𐎣𐎠
  3. Middle Persian · derived from[script needed]
  4. Persian · derived fromمشک
  5. Hindi · borrowed fromमशक
  6. Urdu · borrowed fromمشک
  7. English todaymussuck

From Urdu مشک (maśak) / Hindi मशक (maśak), from Persian مشک (mašk), from Middle Persian [script needed] (mšk' /⁠mašk⁠/), from Old Persian 𐎶𐏁𐎣𐎠 (m-š-k-a /⁠maškā⁠/), via Aramaic or another descendant of Proto-Semitic *mašk- (“skin”).

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