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|etymtx=Grammatical information: v.<br />Meaning: [[lament]], [[wail]] (Il., late prose)<br />Other forms: aor. <b class="b3">κωκῦσαι</b><br />Compounds: with prefix, e.g. <b class="b3">ἀνα-</b>, <b class="b3">ἐπι-</b>.<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">κωκυτός</b> m. (Il.), <b class="b3">κώκυμα</b> (trag.) [[lamenting]], [[wailing]]; <b class="b3">Κώκυτος</b> name of a river of the Underworld (κ 514 etc.).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]X [probably]<br />Etymology: Intensive reduplication; cf. Skt. <b class="b2">káuti</b>, intens. [[kokūyate]] [[wail]], Lith. <b class="b2">kaũkti</b> [[cry]]; (I see no basis to compare <b class="b3">καύαξ</b>). So from <b class="b2">*kauku-</b>, or <b class="b2">*koku-</b>, Pre-Greek? Or IE?
|etymtx=Grammatical information: v.<br />Meaning: [[lament]], [[wail]] (Il., late prose)<br />Other forms: aor. <b class="b3">κωκῦσαι</b><br />Compounds: with prefix, e.g. <b class="b3">ἀνα-</b>, <b class="b3">ἐπι-</b>.<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">κωκυτός</b> m. (Il.), <b class="b3">κώκυμα</b> (trag.) [[lamenting]], [[wailing]]; <b class="b3">Κώκυτος</b> name of a river of the Underworld (κ 514 etc.).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]X [probably]<br />Etymology: Intensive reduplication; cf. Skt. <b class="b2">káuti</b>, intens. [[kokūyate]] [[wail]], Lith. <b class="b2">kaũkti</b> [[cry]]; (I see no basis to compare <b class="b3">καύαξ</b>). So from <b class="b2">*kauku-</b>, or <b class="b2">*koku-</b>, Pre-Greek? Or IE?
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|mdlsjtxt=<br /><b class="num">1.</b> to [[shriek]], cry, [[wail]], [[mostly]] of women, Hom.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> to [[wail]] [[over]] one [[dead]], Od., Aesch., Soph.
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