Re: What is the word or can we make one up?

"kakos" is Greek for 'bad, evil', but as a prefix it doesn't always
have the moral aspect, as in "cacophony" (note, not "cacAphony") --
literally 'bad sound'.

"kakkE" (with DOUBLE-k in the middle: kappa alpha kappa kappa eta) is
'feces'. This may be related to our "kaka", which we think of as baby
talk, as that final eta (long E) is cognate to Latin final "a".

Lee, I don't know where you're getting the optional "e". "Caecus" is
Latin for 'blind'.


-- Dr. Whom, Consulting Linguist, Grammarian, Orthoëpist, and
Philological Busybody
a.k.a. Mark A. Mandel

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