uku

uku

1. Romanization of ᬳᬸᬓᬸ

• (Nuuk) IPA^(key): /uku/, [u.kʊ]

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?

uku

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

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.

• IPA^(key): /ʔú.kù/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [ʔʊ́.kʷʊ̀]

ukù f

1. three

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈu.ku/

uku

1. payment, reward, prize, commission, compensation

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

From Hawaiian ʻuku (“louse, flea”).

uku

1. head lice

   She wen get ukus all ova her hea.

   She had head lice all over her hair.

uku

1. Rōmaji transcription of うく

uku

1. water

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

ukú

1. knife

uku class 11 (plural mauku class 6)

1. night

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

From Proto-Polynesian *uku (“to scour, to wipe”) (compare with Samoan uʻu (“to smear, to annoint”), Tongan ukuʻi (“to wash”)),^[1][2] (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

uku

1. clay
2. pottery
3. soap

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

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.

uku f

1. (dialectal, Orkdal) alternative form of veke

• Ivar Aasen (1850) “Uku”, in Ordbog over det norske Folkesprog‎^[3] (in Danish), Oslo: Samlaget, published 2000

From earlier *ukru, from Proto-Nuristani *ãkura, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hankurás (“bend”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂enkulós, from *h₂enk- (“to bend”).

• IPA^(key): /uˈku/ (tone class C)

uku (Pronz)^[1]

1. shoulder

uku

1. Alternative spelling of ukhu

uku

1. water

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

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈu.ku]

uku

1. fire

• 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^[4]

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

uku

1. fire

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

• IPA^(key): /ū.kú/

ukú

1. (Ekiti, Ijebu) death

• ikú

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

• IPA^(key): /ū.kù/

ukù

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