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Probably a secondary variant of kuusanka, which is a Samic borrowing. There are many dialectal variants, some showing kuukk-, others kuuks- or kuusk-, with a wide variety of endings (-iainen, -inen, etc.), as is common for older names for birds, and some onomatopoeic influence is likely. Alternatively the word itself may simply be onomatopoeic.
“kuukkeli”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
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