μυοτακισμός ? (wordList.csv)

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I do not know who (and where) used this word. Dickey (2007: 248) explains it as repeated μ sound.

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According to Bécares Botas, it occurs in two places: GLK IV 393.1 (i.e. Donatus' Ars maior),

sunt etiam malae compositiones, id est cacosyntheta, quas non nulli barbarismos putant, in quibus sunt myotacismi labdacismi iotacismi hiatus conlisiones et omnia, quae plus aequo minusve sonantia ab eruditis auribus respuuntur. (GLK IV 392.27-393.2)

v.l. miotacismi L moetacismi S metacismi P

and 445.8 (i.e. Servius' Commentarius in Artem Donati).

sunt autem iotacismi labdacismi myotacismi hiatus et collisiones. (GLK IV 445.7-8)

In the latter, there is further explanation:

myotacismus fit, quotiens post partem orationis in m littera desinentem sequitur alia pars orationis quae inchat a vocali, ut 'hominem amicum'. hoc vitium vitare possumus aut per suspensionem pronuntiandi aut exclusione ipsius m litterae. sed melius est ut suspensione pronuntiandi hoc vitium relinquamus. si enim voluerimus m litteram excludere, vitamus quidem myotacismum, sed cadimus in hiatum. (GLK IV 445.14-19)

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For Donatus' Ars maior, we should also consult Holtz's new edition:

Holtz, L.(1981), Donat et la tradition de l'enseignement grammatical : étude sur l'Ars Donati et sa diffusion (IVe-IXe siècle) et édition critique, Paris : Centre national de la recherche scientifique.

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Holtz's text is as follows:

Sunt etiam malae conpositiones, id est cacosyntheta, quas non nulli barbarismos putant, in quibus sunt mytacismi, labdacismi, iotacismi, hiatus, conlisiones, et omnia, quae plus aequo minusve sonantia ab eruditis auribus respuuntur.

mytacismi: myot., moet-, miot-, mot-, met-, etc. alii alia labdacismi : laut-, laud-, lapd- alii alia

He argues also the origin of the suffix -(ta)cismus.

On le(= il suffixe -cismus) retrouve dans iota-cismus, labda-cismus. A son tour, iotacismus a fourni le (faux) suffixe -*τακισμος qui a permis de bâtir my-tacismus, rho-tacismus. L'évolution de ces suffixes permet ainse de fixer une chronologie relative entre les diverses notions en cause. Cf. M. Niedermann, Iotacismus, labdacismus, mytacismus.*

Therefore it will be better to lemmatise μυτακισμός, not μυοτακισμός.

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LSJ lemmatises μυτακισμός:

fondness for the letter μῦ, Diom.p.453K., Donat. p.393K., Serv. in eund.p.445K., Mart. Cap.5.514, Gloss., etc. (moet-, moyt-, mot-, myot-, etc., codd.)

and in Supplement:

delete 'Diom. p. 453K.' and after 'Gloss. etc.' insert 'a fault of pronunciation, Diom. p.453K. (pl.)'