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Ancient Greek words first recorded in the 5th century

1 Ancient Greek word whose earliest known written record dates from the 5th century, earliest first. Words dated only to part of the century follow the ones with a year.

1. μόσχος

   500–599

   1. The shoot and the calf are inherited from Proto-Indo-European *mosǵʰ-o- (“young of an animal; young shoot”), though the reconstruction is uncertain. The diminutive μοσχίον (moskhíon) matches Old…

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