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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 265 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HEN  , a

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female
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bird, especially the female of the
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common
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fowl (q.v.) . The O . Eng. ha;i is the feminine
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form of hana, the male bird, a correlation of words which is represented in other
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Teutonic
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languages, cf . Ger .
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Hahn, Henne, Dutch haan,
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lien, Swed. hane, bonne, &c . The O . Eng. name for the male bird has disappeared, its
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place being taken by "
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cock," a word probably of onomatopoeic origin. being from a
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base kuk- or kik-, seen also in "chicken." This word also appears in Fr. coy, and
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medieval
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Lat. coccus .

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