κοῦκι

Ancient Greek

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kûː.ki/ → /ˈku.ci/ → /ˈku.ci/

• (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)

1. 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