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"Kak" is from Greek. "Cac" is an alternate spelling coming from the same root via French, as in "cacophony" or
I've recently started coming up with new words by changing eu- (meaning good) into caco-. You get some great ones like:
And my favourite, cacothanasia.
Interesting. I know “kak” from Afrikaans and “cachu” from Welsh. I’ve never seen the word definitively derived from Greek; I always believed the root was from PIE language. What do I know?
I looked up the Dutch "kak" and that's pretty funny. It means "bad" in Greek, but the Dutch meaning still works great - rule by the shittiest people.
Yeah - I assumed “shit (people)” was what we were going for; “k” doesn’t exist in Welsh so I asked for the alt spelling. Cacophony then translated as “shit sound” in my head - which again, kind of, works. Language is difficult.