mushk

Together with Proto-Slavic *mъskъ (compare Bulgarian мъск (mǎsk), Romanian mâșc, all, presumably, spreading from the South), forming an areal Balkan word for 'mule'.^[1] The relationship with Latin mulus and Ancient Greek μυχλός (mukhlós) is unclear. All these terms could have derived from an extinct Mediterranean substrate.

• mushkë

mushk m (plural mushq, definite mushku, definite plural mushqit)

1. he-mule, male hinny

• mushkar, mushkash, mushkë

Variant of mushkull, borrowed through Vulgar Latin from Latin musculus (“muscle”). Compare Romanian mușchi, Aromanian mushclju, cf. also Catalan muscle (“shoulder”). Doublet of muskul, a later learned borrowing.

mushk m

1. shoulder