κοῦκι

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Foreign word, perhaps of Egyptian origin, or related to κόϊξ (kóïx, “doum palm”).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kûː.ki/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈku.ki/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈku.ci/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈku.ci/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈku.ci/

Noun

κοῦκι • (koûki) n (indeclinable)

doum palm (Hyphaene thebaica)
Synonym: κόϊξ (kóïx)

Derived terms

κούκινος (koúkinos)
κουκιοφόρος (koukiophóros)

Descendants

→ Latin: cūci

Further reading

“κοῦκι”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
κοῦκι in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

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