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|etymtx=Grammatical information: interj.<br />Meaning: cry of the cuckoo; also as cry in gen. (Ar.).<br />Compounds: As 1. member in <b class="b3">κοκκυ-βόας ὄρνις</b> name of the cock (S. Fr. 791; codd. Eust. <b class="b3">κοκκο-</b> after the <b class="b3">ο-</b>stems; correct?).<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">κοκκύζω</b> of the call of the cuckoo and of the cock (Hes.; cf. Fraenkel Glotta 4, 34) with <b class="b3">κοκκυσμός</b> <b class="b2">shrill cry</b> (Nicom. Math.), <b class="b3">κοκκυστής</b> <b class="b2">cry-er</b> (Timo); <b class="b3">κόκκυξ</b>, <b class="b3">-υγος</b> m. [[cuckoo]] (Hes., <b class="b3">-υγος</b> nom. Alc.), also metaph., a. o. as name of a fish (Hp., Arist.), a fig (Nic.); s. Strömberg Fischnamen 116, resp. Pflanzennamen 73. From <b class="b3">κόκκυξ</b>: <b class="b3">Κοκκύγιον</b> name of a mountain (Paus.); <b class="b3">κοκκυγία ἀνεμώνη</b>. <b class="b3">Κροτωνιᾶται</b> H. ("cuckooflower"; Strömberg l. c.); <b class="b3">κοκκυγέα</b> a tree, <b class="b2">Rhus Cotinus</b> (Plin.; coni. in Thphr. HP 3, 16, 6). With labial the PN <b class="b3">Κόκκυψ</b>, <b class="b3">Κοκκουβίας</b> (Boeoot.; cf. Bechtel Dial. 1, 262f.). Here also <b class="b3">κόκκυς λόφος</b> (i. e. <b class="b2">cocks comb</b>) H.? (non-IE. after Alessio Studi etr. 18, 125 and Hubschmid 3me Congr. intern. de topon. 2, 186f..<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]X [probably], ONOM [onomatopoia, and other elementary formations]<br />Etymology: On <b class="b3">κοκκύμηλον</b> s. v. Prob. dissim. from [[kuku]] (Schwyzer 258 a. 423). Onomatopoetic like Skt. <b class="b2">kokilá-</b> [[cucko]], <b class="b2">kukkuṭá-</b> [[cock]], Lat. [[cucūlus]], NHG [[Kuckuck]] etc.; Pok. 627, W.-Hofmann s. [[cucūlus]]. On <b class="b3">κόκκυξ</b> Thompson Birds s. v. The word could well be Pre-Greek.

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