tuku

Possibly from Swedish tacka (“ewe”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtuku/, [ˈt̪uku]
• Rhymes: -uku
• Hyphenation^(key): tu‧ku

tuku

1. (often repeated) Used to call sheep (to move towards the speaker).

• “tuku”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

• kutu, kuut

tuku

1. Romanization of ꦠꦸꦏꦸ

tuku

1. hoe

From Proto-Polynesian *tuku (“to let go, to release”) (compare with Tokelauan tuku, Samoan tuʻu, Tahitian tuʻu and Hawaiian kuʻu).^[1][2]

tuku

1. to slacken, to let go
2. to release
3. to permit, allow
4. to give up

tuku

1. offering
2. presentation, submission

• kōtukutuku

• “tuku” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtu.ku/
• Rhymes: -uku
• Syllabification: tu‧ku

tuku m inan

1. genitive/locative/vocative singular of tuk

tuku

1. A great horned owl (Bubo virginianus); an owl, generally

tuku (Cyrillic spelling туку)

1. third-person plural present of tući

tuku

1. Romanization of 𒌇 (tuku)

• (Sinūgan Parianun) IPA^(key): /tuku/ [t̪ʊˈk̠u]
• Rhymes: -u
• Syllabification: tu‧ku

tuku (Sulat Sūg spelling تُكُ)

1. pole (used to support something)

• IPA^(key): [ˈtu.ku]

tuku

1. (stative) to be slanting, sloping

Conjugation of tuku
	Singular	Plural
	Inclusive	Exclusive
1st	totuku	fotuku	mituku
2nd	notuku	nituku
3rd	Masculine	otuku	ituku, yotuku†
Feminine	motuku
Neuter	ituku
† - archaic

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Sense of "hour" influenced by Indonesian pukul (“hour, o'clock”)

tuku

1. hour

tuku

1. to beat, to strike

From Proto-Polynesian *tuku. Cognates include Hawaiian kuʻu and Samoan tuʻu.

• IPA^(key): [ˈtu.ku]
• Hyphenation: tu‧ku

tuku

1. A rope on a traditional canoe.

tuku

1. (transitive) to put
2. (transitive) to leave
3. (transitive) to stop
4. (transitive) to allow
5. (transitive) to presume
6. (transitive) to blame
7. (transitive, of canoes) to move

tuku (plural tatuku)

1. (transitive, of trees) to cut down
2. (transitive, of blinds) to let down

• R. Simona, editor (1986), Tokelau Dictionary‎^[3], Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 405

tuku

1. To give

tuku

1. husband, wife, marriage