- κίκιννος
- κίκιννοςGrammatical information: m.Meaning: `curly hair, lock of hair' (Com., Theoc., AP ).Derivatives: PN Κικιννᾶς L. Robert, Noms indigènes 268Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]Etymology: Foreign cultural word (Aegaean or Anatolian?; cf. Schrader-Nehring Reallex. 1, 420). From there Lat. cincinnus; cf. W.-Hofmann s. v. with further details. Fur. 278 is prob. right to assume for it a prenasalized form *κιγκιννος. The word, then, will be Pre-Greek. Wrong etymologies in Bq.Page in Frisk: 1,851
Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό). Robert S.P.. 2010.