cochil

Aromanian

Alternative forms
  • cochiu, cokiu, cochilu, copil, copilu

Etymology

Compare Romanian copil, Megleno-Romanian cupilaș. Probably from South Slavic *kopylъ (“shoot, sprout; bastard”) (compare Serbo-Croatian ко̏пиле/kȍpile, Bulgarian ко́пеле (kópele)), from *kopati (“to dig, cultivate”). Also borrowed into Albanian kopil, Byzantine Greek κόπελος (kópelos). Alternatively an ultimately paleo-Balkan substratum word.

Noun

cochil m (plural cochilj, feminine cochilã)

  1. bastard
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