Askincor
Askincor arabice stincus.
Apparatus:
In ms. p this entry is added seamlessly on to the text of the entry Askil.
Askincor ACD efj | Askinchor B | askicon {‘s’ inserted by a different hand}
stincus | stinckus ms. e
Translation:
Askincor is Arabic for Latin stincus {"skink lizard"}.
Commentary:
Askincor:
Siggel (1950: 14): ﺍﺳﻗﻧﻗﻮﺭ /isqanqūr/ Scincus officinalis, Skunx {i.e. "skink lizard"}. Simon's form shows vowel metathesis: */asqinqūr/. This lemma is ultimately a loan from Greek, see below.
scincus/ stincus:
'c' misread as 't' in scincus. The misreading stincus, e.g. present in all of Simon's witnesses, was common; even Linnaeus named the animal erroneously Lacerta stincus [sic|]
scincus:
Latin scincus/scincos is adopted from Greek σκίγγος /skíngos/, σκίγκος /skínkos/, English skink; it is "a kind of lizard found in Africa and the East, used in medicine" (LSJ).
Zoological identification:
It is most likely Scincus scincus, Linnaeus (1758) , syn. Scincus officinalis by several authors, cf. Siggel (1950). [[1]].
WilfGunther (talk) 11:40, 22 December 2016 (GMT)