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|etymtx=κρεκός<br />Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">name of a long-legged bird, perhaps the ruff, Machetes pugnax, or the corn-crake, Rallus</b> crex (Hdt., Ar., Arist.), also metaph. of <b class="b2">a noisy</b> braggart (Eup.).<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European]X [probably] [568] <b class="b2">*kerk-</b> [[birds]]<br />Etymology: As the identification of the bird is uncertain (s. Thompson Birds s. v.), all etymologies are hypothetical. Onomatopoetic origin is open; one compares other bird names as Skt. <b class="b2">kr̥kara-</b> <b class="b2">kind of partridge</b>, MIr. [[cercc]] [[hen]], OPr. [[kerko]] [[diver]], Russ. <b class="b2">kréčet</b> [[gerfalcon]] (Pok. 568; see also Borgström NTS 16, 142). - Further <b class="b3">κερκάς κρεξ τὸ ὄρνεον</b>, <b class="b3">κερκιθαλίς ἐρῳδιός</b> (cf. <b class="b3">αἰγίθαλος</b>), <b class="b3">κέρκος ἀλεκτρυών</b> H.; also <b class="b3">κέρκνος ἱέραξ η ἀλεκρυών</b> H., and <b class="b3">κέρκαξ ἱέραξ</b> H. (On confusion with [[κέρκος]] <b class="b2">tail of an animal</b> (s. v.) nothing can be said. | |etymtx=κρεκός<br />Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">name of a long-legged bird, perhaps the ruff, Machetes pugnax, or the corn-crake, Rallus</b> crex (Hdt., Ar., Arist.), also metaph. of <b class="b2">a noisy</b> braggart (Eup.).<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European]X [probably] [568] <b class="b2">*kerk-</b> [[birds]]<br />Etymology: As the identification of the bird is uncertain (s. Thompson Birds s. v.), all etymologies are hypothetical. Onomatopoetic origin is open; one compares other bird names as Skt. <b class="b2">kr̥kara-</b> <b class="b2">kind of partridge</b>, MIr. [[cercc]] [[hen]], OPr. [[kerko]] [[diver]], Russ. <b class="b2">kréčet</b> [[gerfalcon]] (Pok. 568; see also Borgström NTS 16, 142). - Further <b class="b3">κερκάς κρεξ τὸ ὄρνεον</b>, <b class="b3">κερκιθαλίς ἐρῳδιός</b> (cf. <b class="b3">αἰγίθαλος</b>), <b class="b3">κέρκος ἀλεκτρυών</b> H.; also <b class="b3">κέρκνος ἱέραξ η ἀλεκρυών</b> H., and <b class="b3">κέρκαξ ἱέραξ</b> H. (On confusion with [[κέρκος]] <b class="b2">tail of an animal</b> (s. v.) nothing can be said. | ||
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|mdlsjtxt=[[κρέκω]]<br />Lat. crex, the [[corn]]-crake, [[land]]-[[rail]], Ar. | |||
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