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Unknown, several theories exist.

Perhaps from Albanian *kokërrëz, from kokërr (“bead, pellet, grain”).
Alternatively, of Slavic origin, a word used to feed poultry, see Proto-Slavic *kurъ (“cock”) with its many derivatives, in which case the descendants table must be omitted. The Serbo-Croatian word is first attested as kukuruza 'buckwheat, Fagopyrum' in 17th-century Ivan Belostenec's Gazophylacium.
However, the word kuku used translingually to imitate and attract chicken might have been combined with the Ottoman Turkish رز (rüz), ارز (ürüz), which may have had a back vowel since the choice between front and back vowel after Arabic ر (r) was unstable and earlier Ottoman was less palatalized.

Terms like the dialectal Czech turkyň, turkyňa, Czech turkyně, Italian granturco, French blé de Turquie, German türkischer Weizen, türkisch Korn, Hungarian törökbúza suggest that the consumption of maize spread to southeastern and east-central Europe from the Ottoman Empire.

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 {{unk|ota}}, several theories exist.
-* Perhaps from {{bor|ota|sq|kokërrëz}}, from {{m|sq|kokërr|t=bead, pellet, grain}}.
+* Perhaps from {{bor|ota|sq||*kokërrëz}}, from {{m|sq|kokërr|t=bead, pellet, grain}}.
 * Alternatively, of {{der|ota|sla}} origin, a word used to feed poultry, see {{der|ota|sla-pro|*kurъ|t=cock}} with its many derivatives, in which case the descendants table must be omitted. The Serbo-Croatian word is first attested as ''kukuruza'' '[[buckwheat]], ''Fagopyrum''' in 17th-century {{w|Ivan Belostenec}}'s ''Gazophylacium''.
 * However, the word ''kuku'' used translingually to imitate and attract chicken might have been combined with the {{cog|ota|رز|tr=rüz}}, {{m|ota|ارز|tr=ürüz}}, which may have had a back vowel since the choice between front and back vowel after {{der|ota|ar|ر}} was unstable and earlier Ottoman was less palatalized.