κυφός

Clearly related to κύπτω (kúptō, “to stoop”). The word has been linked with Lithuanian kuprà (“hump”) and Old High German hovar (“hump”). According to Beekes, the variation "κυφ-/κυπ-" points to a Pre-Greek origin.

κῡφός • (kūphós) m (feminine κῡφή, neuter κῡφόν); first/second declension

1. bent forward, stooping, hunchbacked
2. curved, round (of a cup)

• λορδός (lordós, “bent backward”)

• “κυφός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κυφός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “κυφός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• κυφός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN