cofín

basket

To be put together with Catalan cofí and French coffin, couffin. Unclear relations. # the Spanish and Catalan have been considered borrowed from Arabic قُفَّة (quffa, “basket”), also present in Spanish cofa, Catalan cofa, Portuguese alcofa, which borrowing would have to be suffixed + -ín; # or they may be borrowed from a faulty Medieval Latin pronunciation of Latin cophinus where the penultimate syllable is stressed, contrary to antiquity, and thus a doublet of cuévano; # or Old French cofin (“b