This descriptive etymology attempts to justify the word through a formal characteristic, the absence of bones under flesh. It implies a phonetic change of the voiceless [k] to the voiced [g] which is not immediately clear from Orion's explanation because the text is corrupt, but is clear from the Etym. Magnum which has κένυς instead of the corrupt †κέρυς (see below, Parallels). It starts from the Attic form κενός "empty", regular in koine Greek, leaving aside the dialectal variants (Ionic κεινός, Hom. κενεός).