κόσσυφος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κόττῠφος (kóttuphos) — Attic
• κόσσῠκος (kóssukos)

Etymology

Has been connected with Proto-Slavic *kosъ (“blackbird”) and with Ancient Greek κόπτω (kóptō, “to strike, to blow”), but according to Beekes, of Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kós.sy.pʰos/ → /ˈkos.sy.ɸos/ → /ˈko.si.fos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kós.sy.pʰos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkos.sy.pʰos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈkos.sy.ɸos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈkos.sy.fos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈko.si.fos/

Noun

κόσσῠφος • (kóssuphos) m (genitive κοσσῠ́φου); second declension

1. blackbird
2. a type of fish
3. a type of poultry at Tanagra

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ κόσσῠφος; τοῦ κοσσῠ́φου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κόσσῠφος ho kóssuphos	τὼ κοσσῠ́φω tṑ kossúphō	οἱ κόσσῠφοι hoi kóssuphoi
Genitive	τοῦ κοσσῠ́φου toû kossúphou	τοῖν κοσσῠ́φοιν toîn kossúphoin	τῶν κοσσῠ́φων tôn kossúphōn
Dative	τῷ κοσσῠ́φῳ tôi kossúphōi	τοῖν κοσσῠ́φοιν toîn kossúphoin	τοῖς κοσσῠ́φοις toîs kossúphois
Accusative	τὸν κόσσῠφον tòn kóssuphon	τὼ κοσσῠ́φω tṑ kossúphō	τοὺς κοσσῠ́φους toùs kossúphous
Vocative	κόσσῠφε kóssuphe	κοσσῠ́φω kossúphō	κόσσῠφοι kóssuphoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: κότσυφος m (kótsyfos, “blackbird”)

• κοτσύφι n (kotsýfi, “blackbird”)
• Κοσσυφοπέδιο n (Kossyfopédio, “Kosovo”)
• Κοσσυφοπόλις n (Kossyfopólis, “Kosovo”)

References

• “κόσσυφος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κόσσυφος 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