Cockaigne

English thumb|Pieter Brueghel the Elder, The Land of Cockaigne, 1567 Alternative forms en Cocagne Cocaigne Cockayne Etymology From en fro cocagne, of obscure origin, but the many references to sweet delicacies in the 13th century poem that is the first record of the word suggest it may have come from a Germanic word for a cake, probably the ancestor of the modern de Kuchen.weirdwords/ww-coc2 See also en gem-pro *kōkô. May also relate to or be influenced by en sga cucainn (“food ration, sweet pie”).Emily K. Yoder, "The Monk’s Paradise in The Land of Cockaygne and the Navigatio Sancti Brendani, " Papers on Language and Literature, 19 (1983), 227—238. Pronunciation en /kɒˈkeɪn/ /kəˈkeɪn/ <<name:www>> en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Cockaigne.wav Southern England en cocaine one pronunciation Proper noun en medieval folklore A land of plenty, luxury and idleness. en land of plenty lubberland en utopia paradise en Arcadia ; Xanadu#Noun Shangri-La ; pleasuredome pleasuredom en lotus land land of milk and honey en w:Rutger Bregman Elizabeth Manton Bloomsbury Publishing 3 Kindle Utopia for Realists 1 2017 In Cockaigne, the Land of Plenty, people never argued. Instead, they partied, they danced, they drank, and they slept around. Translations mythical land Catalan: ca país de Cucanya m, ca Xauxa f Danish: da, da slaraffenland Dutch: nl Luilekkerland n Finnish: fi Laiskurila French: fr cocagne f, fr pays de cocagne m German: de Schlaraffenland n Italian: it cuccagna f, it paese della cuccagna m Marathi: mr कॉकेन Norwegian: Bokmål: nb slaraffenland Polish: pl Kukania f Portuguese: pt Cucanha f Russian: ru Кока́нь m, ru Шлараффенла́нд m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: sh зѐмља Дембелија f Latin: sh zèmlja Dembelija f Spanish: es país de Cucaña m Swedish: sv schlaraffenland n See also en hedonism References Further reading en Fictional locations