8 letters · 21 points in Scrabble
noun the first light of day
originFrom Middle English cok crowe (also as cokkes crowe), equivalent to cock + crow. Likely a suppletive variation of Old English hancrǣd (“cockcrow, dawn”, literally “cock-crowing”), from hana (“cock, rooster”) + crǣd (“crowing”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0