virkoko

Esperanto

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *weyh₁-?

Proto-Indo-European *wiHrós

Proto-Italic *wiros

Latin virlbor.

Esperanto viro

Esperanto koko

Esperanto virkoko

From viro (“man”) + koko (“chicken”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /virˈkoko/

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• Rhymes: -oko
• Syllabification: vir‧ko‧ko
• Hyphenation: vir‧koko

Noun

virkoko (accusative singular virkokon, plural virkokoj, accusative plural virkokojn)

1. a rooster, a cock (literally: "man-chicken")

   Synonym: kokiĉo (neologism)

Hypernyms

• koko (“chicken”)