aku

From Proto-Malayic *aku, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *aku, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *aku, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *aku, from Proto-Austronesian *aku.

aku

1. I (personal pronoun)
2. me (direct object of a verb)
3. me (object of a preposition)
4. me (indirect object of a verb)
5. my (belonging to me)

From Proto-Philippine *ʔakúʔ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(i-)aku, from Proto-Austronesian *(i-)aku.

aku

1. I (personal pronoun)

A reduction of akumulaator, ultimately from Latin accumulātor.

aku (genitive aku, partitive akut)

1. battery, cell, accumulator

From Proto-Inuit *aku- (“interval, to mix”), from Proto-Eskimo *akuv- (“between, to mix”). Compare akunneq (“interval”) and akulaaq (“crotch”).

aku (plural akut)

1. ingredient
2. estuary, mouth of a river

• DAKA
• aku in Katersat
• aku in Katersat

aku

1. hot

• IPA^(key): /ʔaku/

aku

1. what kind?, which?

aku

1. bonito, skipjack tuna (Katsuwonus pelamis)

aku

1. direction away from the speaker, away
2. soon, later, earlier, last (week, year, etc.)

• Mai and aku may change the meaning of the verb:

  aʻo mai (“to learn”) — aʻo aku (“to teach”)

  kūʻai mai (“to buy”) — kūʻai aku (“to sell”)

• akula

• mai, maila

From Proto-Malayic *aku, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *aku, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *aku, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *aku, from Proto-Austronesian *aku.

aku

1. I (personal pronoun)
2. me (direct object of a verb)
3. me (object of a preposition)
4. me (indirect object of a verb)
5. my (belonging to me)

• akoe (pre-1947)

From Malay aku, from Classical Malay اكو‎ (aku), from Proto-Malayic *aku, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *aku, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *aku, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *aku, from Proto-Austronesian *aku. Compare Maori aku, Malagasy aho. Doublet of daku.

• IPA^(key): /aku/
• Hyphenation: a‧ku
• Rhymes: -aku, -ku

aku (first-person singular pronoun, referring to the speaker)

1. I, me

   Aku sedang lapar. ― I am hungry.

   Dia memarahi aku. ― He scolded me.

2. my (belonging to me)

   Kucing aku hitam. ― My cat is black.

• The informal personal pronoun.

• -ku, ku, ku-, daku

• ku
• daku (poetic)
• saya (formal)
• aye, gue, ogut (Jakarta)
• gua, gw (informal)
• hamba

• “aku” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

aku

1. Rōmaji transcription of あく

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ikuR, from Proto-Austronesian *ikuR.

aku (classifier ƀĕ)

1. tail

• ku

From Old Javanese aku, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *aku, from Proto-Austronesian *aku.

aku (personal pronoun, informal, Java spelling ꦲꦏꦸ, krama kula)

1. I (personal pronoun)

   Aku lagi mangan. ― I am eating.

2. me (direct object of a verb)
3. me (object of a preposition)
4. me (indirect object of a verb)
5. my (belonging to me)

• kula (formal)
• dalem

äḳu

1. water

• Merritt Ruhlen, The Origin of Language: Tracing the Evolution of the Mother Tongue (1996, →ISBN

From Proto-Philippine *ʔakúʔ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *aku, from Proto-Austronesian *aku.

aku

1. I (personal pronoun)
2. me (direct object of a verb)
3. me (object of a preposition)
4. me (indirect object of a verb)
5. my (belonging to me)

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *aku, from Proto-Austronesian *aku.

aku

1. I (personal pronoun)
2. me (direct object of a verb)
3. me (object of a preposition)
4. me (indirect object of a verb)
5. my (belonging to me)

aku f

1. accusative singular form of aka
2. instrumental singular form of aka
3. genitive plural form of aka

• ku, ku-, -ku, daku

From Proto-Malayic *aku, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *aku, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *aku, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *aku, from Proto-Austronesian *aku.

• IPA^(key): /aku/
• Rhymes: -aku, -ku, -u

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aku (Jawi spelling اکو‎)

1. I (personal pronoun)

   Aku orang itu.

   I am that person.

2. me (direct object of a verb)
3. me (object of a preposition)
4. me (indirect object of a verb)

   Ini aku.

   This is me.

5. my (belonging to me)

   Ini beg aku.

   This is my bag.

• Should not be used when speaking to anyone who is elder or of a higher status.

• saya, sahaya (formal)
• beta (by royalties)
• patik (by royal subjects)

From Proto-Eastern Polynesian *au, from Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *au, from Proto-Polynesian *au, from Proto-Oceanic *au, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *aku, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *aku, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *aku, from Proto-Austronesian *aku.
Cognate with Indonesian aku, Malagasy aho, Tagalog ako.

aku

1. my (when talking of more than one thing)

   Ko aku tīpuna ērā. ― Those are my grandparents.

A possessive determiner which must be followed by a noun, unlike āku and ōku. This is the neutral or informal form and is not governed by the a and o categories. It cannot be stressed, in which case either āku or ōku must be used, depending on the category of the noun.

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

aku

1. (to be) hot

• IPA^(key): [āku᷇]

aku

1. forest

• Lena Björkestedt, A Phonological Sketch of the Mmen Language (2010)

From Proto-Bungku-Tolaki *ku, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *aku, from Proto-Austronesian *aku.

aku

1. I (personal pronoun)
2. me (direct object of a verb)
3. me (object of a preposition)
4. me (indirect object of a verb)
5. my (belonging to me)

• iβaku

From Proto-Bungku-Tolaki *aku, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *aku, from Proto-Austronesian *aku.

aku

1. I (personal pronoun)
2. me (direct object of a verb)
3. me (object of a preposition)
4. me (indirect object of a verb)
5. my (belonging to me)

From Hausa aku.

IPA^(key): /à.kú/

àkú (plural àkúzhì)

1. African gray parrot (Psittacus erithacus)

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *aku, from Proto-Austronesian *aku.

aku

1. I (personal pronoun)
2. me (direct object of a verb)
3. me (object of a preposition)
4. me (indirect object of a verb)
5. my (belonging to me)

From Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *aku, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *aku, from Proto-Austronesian *aku.

aku

1. I (personal pronoun)
2. me (direct object of a verb)
3. me (object of a preposition)
4. me (indirect object of a verb)
5. my (belonging to me)

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *aku.

aku

1. I

• IPA^(key): [ˈa.ku]

aku (Jawi أكو‎)

1. (auxiliary) to be allowed, may

   aku ua sakali-sakali ana ihoru sosira ― it is absolutely not allowed that they paddle earlier

   una owosa toma hito, mina moaku ua ― he enters the kitchen, she may not

   ngone fosabea ge aku ― we (incl.) may pray for that

As an auxiliary, aku follows the main verb. It may take the subject clitics (o, mo, etc.) only either for emphasis or when aku is used as the sole verb in a sentence.

• Frederik Sigismund Alexander de Clercq (1890) Bijdragen tot de kennis der Residentie Ternate, E.J. Brill
• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.ku/
• Hyphenation: a‧ku

From Proto-Polynesian *qa-ku. Cognates include Maori āku.

a aku

1. (alienable) mine

aku

1. (alienable) my

From Proto-Polynesian *haku. Cognates include Hawaiian aʻu and Samoan a'u.

aku

1. needlefish of the genus Strongylura

• R. Simona, editor (1986) Tokelau Dictionary‎, Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 10

• yaku

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(i-)aku, from Proto-Austronesian *(i-)aku.

aku

1. I (personal pronoun)
2. me (direct object of a verb)
3. me (object of a preposition)
4. me (indirect object of a verb)
5. my (belonging to me)