niko

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See also: Niko and Níko

Hanunoo

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ni-ku (“1sg. genitive; my; by me”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /niˈku/
  • Rhymes: -u
  • Syllabification: ni‧ko

Pronoun

nikó (Hanunoo spelling ᜨᜲᜣᜳ)

  1. by me
  2. of me
  3. my

See also

Hanunoo personal pronouns
Person Number Direct Indirect Oblique
First singular ako niko kangko, kang
plural inclusive kita nita kanta
plural exclusive kami nimi kanmi
Second singular kawo, ka nimo kanmo
plural kamo niyo kanyo
Third singular siya niya kanya
plural sida nida kanda

Further reading

  • Conklin, Harold C. (1953) Hanunóo-English Vocabulary (University of California Publications in Linguistics), volume 9, London, England: University of California Press, →OCLC, page 198
  • Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*-ku”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

Japanese

Romanization

niko

  1. Rōmaji transcription of にこ

Maori

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *niko (“to go in circles” — compare with Samoan niʻo “to twirl”) variant of *liko₂ (compare with Samoan liʻo “circle” and liʻoliʻo “to encircle, to surround”) from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *likaw (“curve, bend, winding” — compare with Malay liku, lekuk and lengkuk “bend, curve (of roads, rivers)”, Iban likaw, Central Dusun hikou, and Tagalog líkaw)[1] (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

niko

  1. to coil, to form bights in ropes
  2. to go around
    Synonym: pokai

Noun

niko

  1. cabbage - alternative form of nīko

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Compare “niko, liko2” in Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011). POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online.

Further reading

  • Williams, Herbert William (1917) “niko”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 258
  • “niko” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *nikъto. By surface analysis, ni- +‎ ko.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nîko/
  • Hyphenation: ni‧ko

Pronoun

nȉko (Cyrillic spelling ни̏ко)

  1. no one, nobody
    Synonyms: (Kajkavian) nikdo; (Kajkavian) nigdo

Declension

Declension of niko
singular/plural
nominative nȉko
genitive nȉkog(a)
dative nȉkom(u/e)
accusative nȉkog(a)
vocative -
locative nȉkom(e/u)
instrumental nȉkim

Swahili

Verb

niko

  1. first-person singular positive degree present of -wako (“I am (around there)”)
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