cochil
Aromanian
Alternative forms
- cochiu/cokiu, cochilu, copil, copilu
Etymology
Compare Daco-Romanian copil. Probably from South Slavic *kopylŭ ‘shoot, sprout; bastard’ (compare Serbo-Croatian копиле (kȍpile), Bulgarian копеле (kópele)), from *kopàti ‘to dig, cultivate’. Also borrowed into Albanian kopil, Byzantine Greek κόπελος (kópelos). Alternatively an ultimately paleo-Balkan substratum word.
Noun
cochil