kudo

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See also: kūdõ and Kūdõ

English

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Etymology

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Back-formation from kudos, as if it were a plural with -s.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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kudo (plural kudos)

  1. (nonstandard, sometimes proscribed) A compliment or praise.
    • 1929 February 18, Harkness Lampooned, Time[1], archived from the original on 28 November 2007:
      Tycoon George Fisher Baker built Harvard's Business School in 1924, was given a kudo Ph.D.
    • 2001, Terry T. Lankford et al., Controlling Pilot Error: Controlled Flight Into Terrain[2], →ISBN, page 49:
      At this point we need to give this pilot a kudo.
    • 2004, Suzanne Paola, Tell It Slant: Writing and Shaping Creative Nonfiction[3], →ISBN, page 162:
      We still feel a kudo for one of us is a kudo for the group, as we have nurtured, edited, and prodded each other for much of our writing careers.

Translations

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Verb

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kudo (third-person singular simple present kudos, present participle kudoing, simple past and past participle kudoed)

  1. (transitive, nonstandard, proscribed) To give a compliment or praise to.
    • 1962, Box Office, volume 80, page 6:
      The magazines kudoed the spectacular African wild animal adventure film as being "an outstanding motion picture as voted by the editors."
    • 2001, Richard L. Hemenez, The United States Marine Corps in Books and the Performing Arts, page 450:
      This is more or less a stock service picture entry, kudoing the Coast Guard and the role it played in World War II beach operations.

Finnish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈkudoˣ/, [ˈkudo̞(ʔ)]
  • Rhymes: -udo
  • Syllabification(key): ku‧do

Verb

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kudo

  1. inflection of kutoa:
    1. present active indicative connegative
    2. second-person singular present imperative
    3. second-person singular present active imperative connegative

Anagrams

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Ido

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Etymology

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

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kudo (plural kudi)

  1. (anatomy) elbow

Derived terms

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Japanese

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Romanization

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kudo

  1. Rōmaji transcription of くど

Javanese

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Noun

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kudo

  1. Nonstandard spelling of kuda.

Spanish

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Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

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Borrowed from Japanese .

Noun

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kudo m (uncountable)

  1. (martial arts) kudo

Hypernyms

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Veps

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Etymology

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From Proto-Finnic *kutu. Cognates include Finnish kutu.

Noun

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kudo

  1. spawn (of fish, amphibians)

Inflection

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Inflection of kudo (inflection type 1/ilo)
nominative sing. kudo
genitive sing. kudon
partitive sing. kudod
partitive plur.
singular plural
nominative kudo
accusative kudon
genitive kudon
partitive kudod
essive-instructive kudon
translative kudoks
inessive kudos
elative kudospäi
illative kudoho
adessive kudol
ablative kudolpäi
allative kudole
abessive kudota
comitative kudonke
prolative kudodme
approximative I kudonno
approximative II kudonnoks
egressive kudonnopäi
terminative I kudohosai
terminative II kudolesai
terminative III kudossai
additive I kudohopäi
additive II kudolepäi

References

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  • Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “икра”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎[4], Petrozavodsk: Periodika