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samus12345@lemmy.world
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“Kak” is from Greek. “Cac” is an alternate spelling coming from the same root via French, as in “cacophony” or

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Klear@lemmy.world
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I’ve recently started coming up with new words by changing eu- (meaning good) into caco-. You get some great ones like:

  • cacophoria
  • cacovangelium
  • cacogenics
  • cacology
  • cacophemism

And my favourite, cacothanasia.

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Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works
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Interesting. I know “kak” from Afrikaans and “cachu” from Welsh. I’ve never seen the word definitively derived from Greek; I always believed the root was from PIE language. What do I know?

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samus12345@lemmy.world
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I looked up the Dutch “kak” and that’s pretty funny. It means “bad” in Greek, but the Dutch meaning still works great - rule by the shittiest people.

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Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works
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Yeah - I assumed “shit (people)” was what we were going for; “k” doesn’t exist in Welsh so I asked for the alt spelling. Cacophony then translated as “shit sound” in my head - which again, kind of, works. Language is difficult.

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