Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryExcrement; feces.
From cack (“to defecate in (one's clothes), crap one's pants”), or from Middle English cakken, from Old English *cacian, from Old English cac (“dung; excrement”); either way, ultimately from Latin cacare (“to shit, defecate”). Cognate with English cack. Compare Latin cacō (“to defecate”), French caca (“excrement”), Basque kaka (“excrement”), Lithuanian kaka (“excrement”), Hungarian kaka (“excrement”), Italian cacca, Ancient Greek κάκκη (kákkē, “dung”), German kacken, Irish cac, Welsh cach, Cornish caugh, Breton cac'h, Aromanian cac, Scottish Gaelic cac, Romanian căca, Spanish caca (“excrement”).
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- Inherited-form mentioncakkenenm
- Inherited-form mention*cacianang
- Derivation mentioncacang · dung; excrement
- Derivation mentioncacarela · to shit, defecate
- Cognate mentioncacken
- Cognate mentioncacōla
- Cognate mentioncacafr
- Cognate mentionkakaeu
- Cognate mentionkakalt
- Cognate mentionkakahu
- Cognate mentioncaccait
- Cognate mentionκάκκηgrc · dung
- Cognate mentionkackende
- Cognate mentioncacga
- Cognate mentioncachcy
- Cognate mentioncaughkw
- Cognate mentioncac'hbr
- Cognate mentioncacrup
- Cognate mentioncacgd
- Cognate mentioncăcaro
- Cognate mentioncacaes
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