מתוק MaTOAQ or Ma(S)OAQ, sweet . מגד MaGahD is to sweeten. E-Word entry: “MUSK”
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Akkadian
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matga, matku
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honey [SW]
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Arabic
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mushk and musk
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musk
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Basque
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muxika
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the
sweet peach
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Cree : Algonquian (Amerind)
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maskek, source of MUSKEG
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a strongly sweet peat bog
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Danish
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mose , guttural
dropped
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(rotting smell of) bog or marsh
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English
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MOLD2,3 MOULDER, MUSTY
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organic decay, as in the grave
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Finnish
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makeus M132 metathesis
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sweetness
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Finnish
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mansikka
nasalized
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strawberry
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Finnish
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mustikka fricative shift
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blueberry
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Finnish
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sima
reversed, guttural dropped
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mead or honeywine
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German
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Met
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mead
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Greek
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methu
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wine
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Greek
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moskhos
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musky odor
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Indo-European “root”
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*medhyo
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honey, mead
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Latin
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musca (a garbage
truck is sweet; a 1000 flies can’t be wrong)
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flies, as fruit flies, attracted to
sweet odors
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Mayan: Jacaltec
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isaq' nasal dropped
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sweet potato [FA]
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Nahuatl (Aztec)
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mescal
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liquor of fermented agave
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Old Chinese
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*mjit
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honey
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Old French
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MUST3, a variant of MUSK
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the sweet smell of fermented grapes
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Old Provincal
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Muska-det,-dine,
-t,-tel
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fragrant, musky grapes and wines
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Persian
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muskh
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sweet
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Sanskrit
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madhu
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sweet mead
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Sanskrit
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mushka, pungent perfume in- gredient in the musk deer *
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(extract
of) abdominal male organ, the musky smell of oxen, rats, etc.
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Scotish
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MUSTARD family of pungent herbs
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broccoli, cabbage, kale, radishes
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Swedish
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mjöd M132 metathesis
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mead
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Tagalog (Phillipines)
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matis guttural
dropped
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sugary sweetness
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Vietnamese
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mat
ong nasalized
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honey
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Swahili
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-tamu reversed,guttural dropped
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sweet
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Turkish
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shekerli < שכר SHeyKHahR, sugared, fermented [SUGAR]
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sweet (only related by the SK
in MSK).
See “SUGAR” entry
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Zuni (isolate of New
Mexico)
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mo:chikwa fricative shift
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peach
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* The MUSK MELON and MUSK ROSE are not males, so MSK is about a sweet
stink, not an anatomical perfume ingredient.
See entries “MEAD” and “SUGAR”