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|etymtx=Grammatical information: m.<br />Meaning: [[blockhead]] (Ar., Plu.), also (parodizing) name of a demon of stupidity (Ar. Eq. 221).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: Ending as in <b class="b3">ἰάλεμος</b> (s. v.), further unclear foreign word; on the phonetics Schwyzer 302 and Björck Alpha impurum 46 and 258, who thinks of an onomatopoetic <b class="b3">κο-</b>. Clearly a Pre-Greek word, with the phoneme <b class="b2">kʷ-</b>? Cf. <b class="b3">καυαλός μωρολόγος</b> H., and <b class="b3">κόαλοι βάρβαροι</b> H. S. also on <b class="b3">κόβαλος</b>.
|etymtx=Grammatical information: m.<br />Meaning: [[blockhead]] (Ar., Plu.), also (parodizing) name of a demon of stupidity (Ar. Eq. 221).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: Ending as in <b class="b3">ἰάλεμος</b> (s. v.), further unclear foreign word; on the phonetics Schwyzer 302 and Björck Alpha impurum 46 and 258, who thinks of an onomatopoetic <b class="b3">κο-</b>. Clearly a Pre-Greek word, with the phoneme <b class="b2">kʷ-</b>? Cf. <b class="b3">καυαλός μωρολόγος</b> H., and <b class="b3">κόαλοι βάρβαροι</b> H. S. also on <b class="b3">κόβαλος</b>.
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|mdlsjtxt=κοά¯λεμος, ὁ,<br />a [[stupid]] [[fellow]], booby, Ar. [deriv. uncertain]
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