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|Definition=ὁ, <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> [[jackdaw]], [[Corvus monedula]], <span class="bibl">Il.16.583</span>, <span class="bibl">17.755</span>, <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">V.</span> 129</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Av.</span>50</span>, al., <span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">Char.</span>21.6</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Sign.</span>39</span>, <span class="bibl">Arat.963</span>, al., <span class="bibl">Ael.<span class="title">NA</span>4.30</span>, <span class="bibl">Dionys.<span class="title">Av.</span>3.18</span>; κραγέται κολοιοί <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">N.</span>3.82</span>:—<span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">HA</span>617b16</span> distinguishes three species, <b class="b3">κορακίας, λύκος, βωμολόχος</b> (qq.v.): he also mentions a web-footed <b class="b3">κολοιός</b>, found in Lydia and Phrygia, which is prob. the [[little cormorant]], [[Phalacrocorax pygmaeus]]; cf. <span class="bibl">Ath.9.395e</span> (citing <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Ach.</span>875</span>):—Proverbs: <b class="b3">κολοιὸς ποτὶ κολοιόν</b> 'birds of a feather flock together', <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">EN</span>1155a34</span>, etc.; <b class="b3">κολοιὸς ἀλλοτρίοις πτεροῖς ἀγάλλεται</b> 'borrowed plumes', <span class="bibl">Luc.<span class="title">Apol.</span>4</span>; <b class="b3">κύκνον ἡγοῦ τὸν κ</b>. 'your geese are swans', <span class="bibl">Lib.<span class="title">Ep.</span>42.3</span>; of impudent noisy talkers, πολλοὶ… σφε κατακρώζουσι κολοιοί <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Eq.</span>1020</span>; of Agathocles, <span class="bibl">Timae.145</span>. (Cf.<b class="b3">κολῳός, κολῳάω</b>.)</span>

|etymtx=Grammatical information: m.<br />Meaning: [[jackdaw]], [[Corvus monedula]] (Il., Pi., Ar., Arist.).<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">κολοιώδης</b> <b class="b2">j.-like</b> (Plu.) and <b class="b3">κολοιάω</b> (Poll. 5, 89), <b class="b3">-ῳάω</b> (Β 212) <b class="b2">cry (like a j.)</b>, <b class="b3">κολῳέω</b> <b class="b2">id.</b> (Antim. 37); as backformation <b class="b3">κολῳός</b> [[screeching]] (Α 575, A. R. 1, 1284), <b class="b3">κολοιή φωνή</b> H.<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: Formation (after <b class="b3">αἰγυπιός</b>?) and origin unexplained. Onomatopoetic origin (Bq as supposition), though acceptable, cannot be substantiated (not to <b class="b3">κέλαδος</b>, <b class="b3">καλέω</b>). After Specht Ursprung 145 to OE [[hlyn]] [[noise]] with [[ablaut]] (<b class="b2">o)i</b> : [[u]] (?). Cf. [[κολοίφρυξ]]. - That <b class="b3">κολῳάω</b>, <b class="b3">-ῳός</b> should be separated from <b class="b3">κολοιάω</b>, <b class="b3">-οιός</b> (e. g. Bq), is very improbable. The special notation with <b class="b3">-ῳ-</b> (in <b class="b3">ἐκολῴα Β</b> 212) arose perhaps as (metrically lengthened) mixform of <b class="b3">*ἐκολόα</b> (with regular loss of the intervocalic <b class="b3">ι</b> as in Lesb. <b class="b3">εὑνόαν</b> a. o.; Schwyzer 236) and <b class="b3">*ἐκολοία</b>; cf. also <b class="b3">κολουᾶν θορυβεῖν</b> H. - The variation may be of Pre-Greek origin.