| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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Appendix I
Indo-European Roots |
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| ENTRY: | kakka- |
| DEFINITION: | Also kaka-. To defecate. Root imitative of glottal closure during defecation. 1. cucking stool, from Middle English cukken, to defecate, from a source akin to Old Norse *k ka, to defecate. 2. poppycock, from Latin cac re, to defecate. 3. caco-; cacodyl, cacoëthes, cacophonous, cacophony, from Greek kakos, bad. (Pokorny kakka- 521.) |
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