kuo

See also: kuò, kuǒ, and ku'o

Esperanto

Etymology

From French ku.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈkuo]
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  • Rhymes: -uo
  • Hyphenation: ku‧o

Noun

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

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

Lithuanian

Pronoun

kuo

  1. instrumental of kas

Mandarin

Romanization

kuo

  1. Nonstandard spelling of kuò.

Usage notes
  • English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Middle Dutch

Noun

kuo

  1. (rare) Alternative spelling of coe

Old Dutch

Noun

Cow.

  1. Thiu kuo is swart endi thiu macat witta melk
    The cow is black and it makes white milk.

Descendants

Middle dutch: Coe.

Dutch: Koe.

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *kū, from Proto-Germanic *kūz, whence also Old Saxon kō, Old Dutch kuo, Old English cū, Old Norse kýr.

Noun

kuo f

  1. cow

Descendants
  • Middle High German: kuo

Sudovian

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *kwṓ, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwṓ. Compare Lithuanian šuõ, Latvian suns, Old Prussian sunis.[1][2]

Noun

kuo

  1. (zoology) dog
    • “Pagan dialects from Narew” line 152, (copied by V. Zinov, 1983):
      pios [pies] — kuo
      pios [pies] — dog

References
  1. Zigmas Zinkevičius (1985), “Lenkų-jotvingių žodynėlis? [A Polish-Yotvingian dictionary?]”, in Baltistica (in Lithuanian), volume 21, issue 1, page 74: “kuo ‘šuo, l. pios’ 152.”
  2. “šuõ” in Hock et al., Altlitauisches etymologisches Wörterbuch 2.0 (online, 2020–): “nar. kuo s. ‘Hund’”.

Zou
Zou cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : kuo

Etymology

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

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ku˧˥.o˧/

Numeral

kúo

  1. nine

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