cuckold

Etymology
From, , , , , from ; a compound of (some varieties of the cuckoo bird lay their eggs in another’s nest) and. Cucu is either a directly derived derivative of the 's call, or from. 🇨🇬 is a compound of onomatopoeic (compare 🇨🇬) and the diminutive suffix.

is from (similar suffixes are used in some personal names within other Germanic languages as well; compare, for instance), a suffixal use of , from  (compare 🇨🇬, from the related ), from , from.

Appears in in noun form circa 1250 as. First known use of the verb form is 1589.

Noun

 * 1) A man married to an unfaithful wife, especially when he is unaware or unaccepting of the fact.
 * 2) * 1546,, The Third Book, Chapter 36
 * If I never marry, I shall never be a cuckold.
 * 1) A man who is paraphilically attracted to or aroused by the sexual infidelity of a partner.
 * 2) A West Indian plectognath fish,.
 * 3) The,  and allied species.
 * 1) A man who is paraphilically attracted to or aroused by the sexual infidelity of a partner.
 * 2) A West Indian plectognath fish,.
 * 3) The,  and allied species.
 * 1) The,  and allied species.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Abjad: پيصر, قرمساق, دیوث‎
 * Roman: peysər,, qurumsaq, dəyyus
 * Belarusian: рагано́сец, рага́ты
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: cornut
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Corsican: curnutu
 * Czech:
 * Danish: hanrej
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: kokrito
 * Estonian: sarvekandja
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician: cornudo
 * German: Gehörnter,, Hornträger
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Interlingua: cucu
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: コキュー, コキュ
 * Korean: 오쟁이진 남편
 * Macedonian: рогоносец
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Ottoman Turkish: پزونك, قورومساق, ڪراته, كیدی, قلتبان, بوینوزلی, دیوث
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ро́гоња
 * Roman:
 * Sicilian:
 * Slovak: paroháč
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:, ,
 * Ukrainian: рогоно́сець, рога́тий
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük: koküfäb

Verb

 * 1)  To make a cuckold or cuckquean of someone by being unfaithful, or by seducing their partner or spouse.

Translations

 * Breton:
 * Dutch:, onder de kluiten schieten, de hoorns opzetten
 * Esperanto: kokri
 * Finnish: tehdä jostakusta aisankannattaja
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: mettere le corna,
 * Japanese: 不義をする
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, , pôr chifres em,
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian: набити рогове, sh
 * Sicilian: fari li corna
 * Slovak: nasadiť parohy
 * Spanish:, , , pegar los tarros, poner las guampas, sanchear
 * Turkish:, boynuzu takmak