apocop. for κατά before κ, in Hom. mostly κὰκ κεφαλῆς, κὰκ κεφαλήν, Il. 18.24, 16.412, al.; also κὰκ κόρυθα 11.351; κὰκ κορυφήν 8.83; cf. κάγ, κάδ.
The corpus record
κάκ
kak2
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What it meant — LSJ
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.