κόσσυφος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

κόττῠφος (kóttŭphos) — Attic
κόσσῠκος (kóssŭkos)

Etymology

Has been connected with Proto-Slavic *kosъ (“blackbird”) and with Ancient Greek κόπτω (kóptō, “to strike, to blow”), but Beekes is skeptical of the aforementioned theories due to the word's phonetic variants and obscure morphology, and considers the word of Pre-Greek origin.^[1]

Pronunciation

(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 • (kóssŭphos) m (genitive κοσσῠ́φου); second declension

blackbird
a type of fish
a type of poultry at Tanagra

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ κόσσῠφος; τοῦ κοσσῠ́φου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κόσσῠφος ho kóssŭphos	τὼ κοσσῠ́φω tṑ kossŭ́phō	οἱ κόσσῠφοι hoi kóssŭphoi
Genitive	τοῦ κοσσῠ́φου toû kossŭ́phou	τοῖν κοσσῠ́φοιν toîn kossŭ́phoin	τῶν κοσσῠ́φων tôn kossŭ́phōn
Dative	τῷ κοσσῠ́φῳ tōî kossŭ́phōi	τοῖν κοσσῠ́φοιν toîn kossŭ́phoin	τοῖς κοσσῠ́φοις toîs kossŭ́phois
Accusative	τὸν κόσσῠφον tòn kóssŭphon	τὼ κοσσῠ́φω tṑ kossŭ́phō	τοὺς κοσσῠ́φους toùs kossŭ́phous
Vocative	κόσσῠφε kóssŭphe	κοσσῠ́φω kossŭ́phō	κόσσῠφοι kóssŭphoi
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

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “κόσσυφος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 760