kuo

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See also: kuò, kuǒ, and ku'o

Esperanto

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Etymology

From French ku.

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -uo
  • Hyphenation: ku‧o

Noun

kuo (accusative singular kuon, plural kuoj, accusative plural kuojn)

  1. the letter q (upper case Q), the seventeenth letter of the Latin alphabet

Lithuanian

Pronoun

kuo

  1. instrumental of kas

Mandarin

Romanization

kuo

  1. Nonstandard spelling of kuò.

Usage notes

  • Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Middle Dutch

Noun

kuo

  1. (rare) Alternative spelling of coe

Nafaanra

Noun

kuo

  1. society, organization

Old Dutch

Noun

kuo

  1. cow
    Thiu kuo is swart endi thiu macat witta melk
    The cow is black and it makes white milk.

Descendants

Middle dutch: Coe. Dutch: Koe.

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *kū, from Proto-Germanic *kūz, whence also Old Saxon kō, Old Dutch kuo, Old English cū, Old Norse kýr.

Noun

kuo f

  1. cow

Descendants

  • Middle High German: kuo

Sudovian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic *śwṓ, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwṓ. Compare Lithuanian šuõ, Latvian suns, Old Prussian sunis.

For kuo instead of expected *suo／*szuo see:

Noun

kuo

  1. (zoology) dog (originall Polish gloss: pios)

References

Zou

Zou cardinal numbers
 <  8 9 10  > 
    Cardinal : kuo

Etymology

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *kua, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-kwa. Cognates include Hakka 九 (kiú) and Burmese ကိုး (kui:).

Pronunciation

Numeral

kúo

  1. nine

References

  • Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 51
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