- kopso-
- kopso-English meaning: blackbirdDeutsche Übersetzung: “Amsel”Note: (: k̂op- “ onomatopoeic words”?)Material: Gk. κόψ-ιχος “blackbird”, κόσσυ-φος (diss. from *κοψ-υφος) ds.; R.C.S. (etc.) kosъ “blackbird”. - Meillet legt (MSL 18, 171) under assumption from IE k̂- (das in kosъ because of consecutive s as k festgehalten sei) eine onomatopoeic words k̂opthe basic: Church Slavic sopǫ ‘spiele die flute”, O.Bulg. sopьcь “αὐλητής”, Russ. sopětь “pant, gasp” etc. and O.Ind. śáb-d-a- m. ‘sound, clangor, discourse, word” (to -d-suffix in words for din, fuss, noise s. Brugmann II2 1, 467), śápati “verflucht”, -tē “beteuert, gelobt”.References: WP. I 457, Trautmann 299.
Proto-Indo-European etymological dictionary. 2015.