cucu (c.1165)
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cucu (c.1165)

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[ FEW: 2/ii,1454a cuculus; Gdf: ∅; GdfC: 9,214b coucou; TL:  cocu 1; DEAF:  cocu 1; DMF:  coucou; TLF:  coucou; OED:  cuckoo n.; MED:  cokkou n.; DMLBS: 527c cuculus ]
cuccu,  cocku,  coccowe;  cokkow;  coucu;  cuckow;  kuku,  cucuze  

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1orn.zool.cuckoo: 
( c.1165; MS: s.xiii2 )  Tuz esteient esbai quant del cuccu oient le cri  198.8
( MS: c.1250 )  De avibus: [...] Hic cuculus: cucu  i 419
pain (de) cucu
1bot.wood sorrel, wood sour: 
( MS: s.xiiex )  Panis kukuli: gall. payn kuku, angl. wodesure  291.23
( MS: c.1300 )  Alleluia: (A1) gallice payne cucu, anglice yekesmete .i. wodesour  16
( MS: c.1300 )  panis cuculi idem, g[allice] payne cucu  109.26
( MS: s.xv1/4 )  Alleluia: (C1) anglicewodesowre, gallice pains cucuze (var. (C5: s.xv2) gallice payn de coccowe vel surel dé boys; (C6: s.xv2) gallice payn de cockeyl vel sorel dé boys, anglice wodesowre)  4
cucuel 
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