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From French ku.

• IPA^(key): [ˈkuo]

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• Rhymes: -uo
• Hyphenation: ku‧o

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

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

The o is occasionally dropped, usually when spelling out words. E.g. QED would frequently be spelled out "ku e do" instead of "kuo e do" in Esperanto.

kuo

1. instrumental of kas

kuo

1. Nonstandard spelling of kuò.

• 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.

kuo

1. (rare) Alternative spelling of coe

• kū, kō, chuo

From Old High German kuo, from Proto-West Germanic *kō, from Proto-Germanic *kōz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws.

• IPA^(key): (classical) /kuə̯/, (southern Upper German) /kxuə̯/, (later Central German) /kuː ~ koː/

kuo f

1. cow

• Alemannic German: Chue
  • Alsatian: Küeh
  • Walser: Chua
• Bavarian: Kuah, Kouh (Northern Bavarian), Kua (spelling variant)
  • Cimbrian: khua
  • Mòcheno: kua
• Central Franconian: Kuh, Koh
  • Hunsrik: Kuh
  • Luxembourgish: Kou
• East Franconian: Kou, Kua, Kuu
• German: Kuh
• Rhine Franconian:
  • Pennsylvania German: Kuh
• Vilamovian: kü
• Yiddish: קו (ku)

• Benecke, Georg Friedrich, Müller, Wilhelm, Zarncke, Friedrich (1863) “KUO”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch: mit Benutzung des Nachlasses von Benecke, Stuttgart: S. Hirzel
• "kuo" in Köbler, Gerhard, Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch (3rd edition 2014)

kuo

1. society, organization

From Proto-West Germanic *kō, from Proto-Germanic *kōz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws.

kuo f

1. cow

• Middle High German: kuo, kū, kō, chuo
  • Alemannic German: Chue
    • Alsatian: Küeh
    • Walser: Chua
  • Bavarian: Kuah, Kouh (Northern Bavarian), Kua (spelling variant)
    • Cimbrian: khua
    • Mòcheno: kua
  • Central Franconian: Kuh, Koh
    • Hunsrik: Kuh
    • Luxembourgish: Kou
  • East Franconian: Kou, Kua, Kuu
  • German: Kuh
  • Rhine Franconian:
    • Pennsylvania German: Kuh
  • Vilamovian: kü
  • Yiddish: קו (ku)

• "kuo" in Köbler, Gerhard, Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch (6th edition 2014)

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:

• typo: aktis (also geptis)
• -k- : -s-/-š- alternation: Lithuanian šleĩvas : kleĩvas, šaũkti : kaũkti

kuo

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

• Zigmas Zinkevičius (1985) “Lenkų-jotvingių žodynėlis? [A Polish-Yotvingian dictionary?]”, in Baltistica, volume 21, number 1 (in Lithuanian), Vilnius: VU, →DOI, page 74: “kuo ‘šuo, l. pios’ 152.”

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

• IPA^(key): /ku˧˥.o˧/

kúo

1. nine

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