pecok
Middle English
noun
Definitions
- The peacock or its meat.
Etymology
Compound from Middle English po (peacock) + Middle English cok (rooster, cock, boat)derived from Old English pāwa derived from Latin pāvō (peacock) derived from Tamil தோகை (tail, peacock feather).
Origin
Tamil
தோகை
Gloss
tail, peacock feather
Concept
Semantic Field
The body
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
尾
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- cock English
- pavonated English
- pea English
- peacock English
- peacockery English
- peacocking English
- peacockish English
- peacocky English
- po English
- gallopavo Latin
- pavoninus Latin
- pāvō Latin
- paonazzo Italian
- ponceau French
- pavo Spanish, Castilian
- ταώς Ancient Greek
- *pawô Proto-Germanic
- *pāwô Proto-Germanic
- coc Old English
- pāwa Old English
- cok Middle English
- cokswain Middle English
- kokerel Middle English
- po Middle English
- péacóg Irish
- páfugl Old Norse
- påfugl Danish
- pavo Esperanto
- pavo Galician
- פּאַווע Yiddish
- páv Slovak
- pavu Asturian
- pau Western Frisian
- தோகை Tamil
- pīkake Hawaiian