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1878, Jules Verne, Dick Sand: A Captain at Fifteen:
Of parrots, little Jack only saw ash-gray jakos, with red tails, which abounded under the trees. But these jakos were not new to him.
1882, Rev. P. B. Power, The Home Visitor and District Companion:
Very little is known of these birds in their wild state, although they are brought to Europe in far greater numbers than any other species. We learn from Henglin that the habitat of the Jako extends from the western coast of Africa deep into the heart of that continent […]
1908, Chandler Belden Beach, The Students' Reference Work:
The Jako, or gray parrot of Africa, has the capacity for speaking best developed, and the yellow-headed green parrot of Mexico stands second in the list.
count-off(the act of splitting a group of persons into a number N of smaller groups by having them call out, one by one, the numbers one through N and again until everyone has a number; also as an interjection ordering a group to do so)
“jako”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
1) obsolete *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive.
Aguilar Feria, Martimiana, García Rojas, Vicente, Erickson de Hollenbach, Elena (2017) Diccionario mixteco de Magdalena Peñasco (Saꞌan Ñuu Savi) (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 50) (in Spanish), Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 53
Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “jako”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
Sławski, Franciszek (1958-1965) “jako”, in Jan Safarewicz, Andrzej Siudut, editors, Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), Kraków: Towarzystwo Miłośników Języka Polskiego
According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), jako is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 151 times in scientific texts, 69 times in news, 131 times in essays, 58 times in fiction, and 38 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 447 times, making it the 103rd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.
References
^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “jako”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 160
Further reading
jako in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “jako, jak, jeko”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
Aleksandra Wieczorek (05.04.2020) “JAKO”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
Djeca se često poskliznu i padnu kad uče hodati, ali se rijetko jako ozlijede. ― Children often slip and fall when they are learning to walk, but they rarely seriously injure themselves.
Auto je skrenuo jako udesno te skliznuo sa ceste. ― Car turned hard to the right and skidded off the road.
U nekim borilačkim sportovima, prejako udaranje suparnika može rezultirati diskvalificiranjem. ― In some martial arts, hitting the opponent too hard can result in disqualification.
*) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the terminative is formed by adding the suffix -ssaa to the short illative (sg) or the genitive. ***) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka to the genitive.
References
Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) “jako”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn