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Etymology 1
According to Lagarde, borrowed from an 🇨🇬 predecessor of 🇨🇬, which would correspond to the famous export of salted Van fish from Armenia, but the borrowing is rather in the opposite direction because the Armenian term is late and sporadically used; besides the meaning appears more general in Greek. However it can still be of – according to Beekes  – origin and has been put together by Puhvel with the Homeric 🇨🇬 used for the Lycian last rites, , ,  and connected to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬; a mummy would be a dead-body preserved for or reserved for the gods.

Noun

 * 1) dead body preserved by embalming, mummy
 * 2) meat preserved by salting, pickling, drying,  smoking,  dried  smoked fish
 * 3)  a stockfish
 * 1)  a stockfish

Etymology 2
Conversion of the former.