uku

Balinese

Romanization

uku

1. Romanization of ᬳᬸᬓᬸ

Greenlandic

Pronunciation

• (Nuuk) IPA^(key): /uku/,

Particle

uku

1. plural of una, a hyphenated or assimilated enclitic which denotes to be.

   e.g. tuttunuku

   They are reindeers.

   e.g. inuit-uku?

   Are they humans?

Pronoun

uku

1. they
2. them
3. these
4. their

Hausa

Etymology

Cognate with Bura kwan, Goemai kun, Beele kunu, Bole kúnūː, Kirfi kúnū, Galambu kūːn, Gera kùnú, Deno kúnú, Duwai kô, Ngamo kùnû, Karekare kūnù, Tal ƙún.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʔú.kù/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key):

Numeral

ukù f

1. three

Hawaiian

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *utu, from Proto-Oceanic *utuŋ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *utuŋ (compare Maori utu, Malay untung).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈu.ku/

Noun

uku

1. payment, reward, prize, commission, compensation

References

• Pukui, Mary Kawena, Elbert, Samuel H. (1986) “uku”, in Hawaiian Dictionary, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press

Hawaiian Creole

Etymology

From Hawaiian ʻuku (“louse, flea”).

Noun

uku

1. head lice

   She wen get ukus all ova her hea.

   She had head lice all over her hair.

Japanese

Romanization

uku

1. Rōmaji transcription of うく

Kwoma

Noun

uku

1. water

References

• transnewguinea.org, citing D. C. Laycock, Languages of the Lumi Subdistrict (West Sepik District), New Guinea (1968), Oceanic Linguistics, 7 (1): 36-66

Limos Kalinga

Noun

ukú

1. knife

Maore Comorian

Noun

uku class 11 (plural mauku class 6)

1. night

References

• “uku” in Outils & Ressources pour l'Exploitation de la Langue Comorienne, 2008.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Initial dropping of vuku, a metaphony of viku, from the oblique singular form of Old Norse vika f (“week”). From Proto-Germanic *wikǭ. A similar process seems to have taken place with Old English wucu. Akin to English week.

Noun

uku f

1. (dialectal, Orkdal) alternative form of veke

References

• Ivar Aasen (1850) “Uku”, in Ordbog over det norske Folkesprog‎ (in Danish), Oslo: Samlaget, published 2000

Quechua

Noun

uku

1. Alternative spelling of ukhu

Declension

Seim

Noun

uku

1. water

References

• transnewguinea.org, citing D. C. Laycock, Languages of the Lumi Subdistrict (West Sepik District), New Guinea (1968), Oceanic Linguistics, 7 (1): 36-66

Ternate

Etymology

From Proto-North Halmahera *uku (“fire”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Noun

uku

1. fire

References

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh
• Gary Holton, Marian Klamer (2018) The Papuan languages of East Nusantara and the Bird's Head‎

Tidore

Etymology

From Proto-North Halmahera *uku (“fire”).

Noun

uku

1. fire

Yoruba

Etymology 1

u- (“non-gerundive nominalizer”) +‎ kú (“to die”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ū.kú/

Noun

ukú

1. (Ekiti, Ijebu) death

Alternative forms

• ikú

Etymology 2

u- (“nominalizing prefix”) +‎ kù (“to grumble”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ū.kù/

Noun

ukù

1. (Ikalẹ, Ijebu, Ekiti, Usẹn) Ìkálẹ̀ and Ìjẹ̀bú form of ikùn (“stomach”)