- κοχώνη
- κοχώνηGrammatical information: f.Meaning: `buttocks' (Hp., com., Herod.).Origin: IE [Indo-European]X [probably] [438] *ǵhengh- `step'Etymology: The almost complete identity with Skt. jaghána- m. n. `buttocks' can hardly be a coincidence; the further analysis remains hypothetical. Since J. Schmidt KZ 25, 112 a. 116; 32, 373f. κοχώνη is explained as assimilated from *καχώνα, with *καχ- = Skt.. jagh- as zero grade of jáṅghā f. `lower thigh-bone' etc. (to Goth. gaggan `go', IE. *ǵhengh-). Objections by Specht KZ 66, 197ff., who because of προχῶναι `buttocks' (Archipp. 41) separates κοχώνη from jaghána- etc. and wants to connect χάσκω and cognates. But προχῶναι can be a comic distortion of κοχώνη after πρωκτός (Güntert Reimwortbildungen 122)(?). Diff. on προχῶναι (after προχωννύω) Pisani Ist. Lomb. 73 : 2, 22f. Mayrhofer, EWAia I 563 also finds no solution.Page in Frisk: 1,937-938
Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό). Robert S.P.. 2010.