- κοττίς
- κοττίςMeaning: `hairdress with long hair on the forehead' (Poll., H., Phot.).Other forms: -ίδος f. Dor. for κεφαλή (Poll., H., Phot.); also κοτίς (Hp.), = `ἰνίον, παρεγκεφαλίς' (Gal.), `τῆς κεφαλῆς ἡ κορυφή' (Erot.).Compounds: As 2. member in προκοττίς ἡ χαίτη H. and προκόττα f. (dor.)Derivatives: κόττικοι αἱ περικεφαλαῖαι; κοττάρια τὰ ἄκρα τῆς κέγχρου H. - Beside it κόττος = κύβος (Cod. Just.), κοττός (κόττος) ὄρνις. καὶ οἱ ἀλεκτρυόνες κοττοὶ διὰ τὸν ἐπὶ τῃ̃ κεφαλῃ̃ λόφον (cf. NGr. κόττα `chicken'); κοττοβολεῖν τὸ παρατηρεῖν τινα ὄρνιν H. On κόττος as name of a river-fish (Arist. HA 534a 1) s. Strömberg Fischnamen 119 (after the cock). - PN Κοττίς, Κότταλος, -άλη (Herod.).Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]X [probably]Etymology: Connection with κοτύλη `bowl, dish' is a guess. For a basic *κοτϜ-ίς (Scheftelowitz BB 28, 146) there is no support; rather in this popular diminut. an expressive gemination. - Acc. to Hubschmid Romance Philology 6, 190ff. these words (incl. κοτύλη) come from a pre-IE. hispano-caucasian language-group and have in Iberoromance, in Basque and elsewhere several cognates; orig. meaning `concave or convex rounding', from where `vessel' (\> `head'), also `hill, head' etc. Unhappily most concrete objects can be brought under such a denominator. - Here acc. to Hubschmid also κότταβος as orig. vessel-name. - Diff. on κόττος Mann Lang. 28, 35. - Fur. 362 connects κοτ(τ) ίς, (προ)κόττα with σκύτη κεφαλή H.(?); the geminate would point to Pre-Greek..Page in Frisk: 1,933
Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό). Robert S.P.. 2010.