κοῦφος

See also: κούφος

Ancient Greek edit

Of unknown origin.^[1] Per Trubachev, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *kewbʰ- (“to duck, to bow”) attested in κουφάριν (kouphárin, “carcass”), Old East Slavic кубъ (kubŭ, “drinking vessel”).^[2]

κοῦφος • (koûphos) m (feminine κούφη, neuter κοῦφον); first/second declension

First and second declension of κοῦφος; κούφη; κοῦφον (Attic)

Number	Singular			Dual			Plural
Case/Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	κοῦφος koûphos	κούφη koúphē	κοῦφον koûphon	κούφω koúphō	κούφᾱ koúphā	κούφω koúphō	κοῦφοι koûphoi	κοῦφαι koûphai	κοῦφᾰ koûpha
Genitive	κούφου koúphou	κούφης koúphēs	κούφου koúphou	κούφοιν koúphoin	κούφαιν koúphain	κούφοιν koúphoin	κούφων koúphōn	κούφων koúphōn	κούφων koúphōn
Dative	κούφῳ koúphōi	κούφῃ koúphēi	κούφῳ koúphōi	κούφοιν koúphoin	κούφαιν koúphain	κούφοιν koúphoin	κούφοις koúphois	κούφαις koúphais	κούφοις koúphois
Accusative	κοῦφον koûphon	κούφην koúphēn	κοῦφον koûphon	κούφω koúphō	κούφᾱ koúphā	κούφω koúphō	κούφους koúphous	κούφᾱς koúphās	κοῦφᾰ koûpha
Vocative	κοῦφε koûphe	κούφη koúphē	κοῦφον koûphon	κούφω koúphō	κούφᾱ koúphā	κούφω koúphō	κοῦφοι koûphoi	κοῦφαι koûphai	κοῦφᾰ koûpha
Derived forms	Adverb			Comparative			Superlative
Derived forms	κούφως koúphōs			κουφότερος kouphóteros			κουφότᾰτος kouphótatos
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
^ * Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1987), “*kubъ, *kubъkъ, *kubikъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 13 (*kroměžirъ – *kyžiti), Moscow: Nauka, page 77