tauko

Finnish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɑu̯ko/, [ˈt̪ɑu̯ko̞]
  • Rhymes: -ɑuko
  • Syllabification(key): tau‧ko

Etymology 1

tauota + -o. Meaning "rest" coined by Finnish ethnomusicologist Armas Otto Väisänen in Uusia suomenkielisiä säveltaiteen määresanoja (1915).

Noun

tauko

  1. break, pause (interruption)
  2. (music) rest
  3. caesura (break in a speech, play, poem etc.)
  4. hiatus
Declension
Inflection of tauko (Kotus type 1*D/valo, k- gradation)
nominative tauko tauot
genitive tauon taukojen
partitive taukoa taukoja
illative taukoon taukoihin
singular plural
nominative tauko tauot
accusative nom. tauko tauot
gen. tauon
genitive tauon taukojen
partitive taukoa taukoja
inessive tauossa tauoissa
elative tauosta tauoista
illative taukoon taukoihin
adessive tauolla tauoilla
ablative tauolta tauoilta
allative tauolle tauoille
essive taukona taukoina
translative tauoksi tauoiksi
instructive tauoin
abessive tauotta tauoitta
comitative taukoineen
Possessive forms of tauko (type valo)
possessor singular plural
1st person taukoni taukomme
2nd person taukosi taukonne
3rd person taukonsa
Compounds

Etymology 2

From Proto-Finnic *tauko, borrowed from Proto-Germanic *taugō.

Noun

tauko

  1. (dialectal) thick rope, tow rope
Declension
Inflection of tauko (Kotus type 1*D/valo, k- gradation)
nominative tauko tauot
genitive tauon taukojen
partitive taukoa taukoja
illative taukoon taukoihin
singular plural
nominative tauko tauot
accusative nom. tauko tauot
gen. tauon
genitive tauon taukojen
partitive taukoa taukoja
inessive tauossa tauoissa
elative tauosta tauoista
illative taukoon taukoihin
adessive tauolla tauoilla
ablative tauolta tauoilta
allative tauolle tauoille
essive taukona taukoina
translative tauoksi tauoiksi
instructive tauoin
abessive tauotta tauoitta
comitative taukoineen
Possessive forms of tauko (type valo)
possessor singular plural
1st person taukoni taukomme
2nd person taukosi taukonne
3rd person taukonsa

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