vuku

See also: Vuku and vʉkʉ

Jamtish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Norse viku, accusative of vika, from Proto-Germanic *wikǭ.

Pronunciation
  • (Western dialects) IPA(key): [²ʋɵˑkʉ][1]
  • (Central dialects) IPA(key): [²ʋɔːkɔ][2]
  • (Hackås, Oviken) IPA(key): [²ʋɔkːɵ][3]

Noun

vuku f

  1. week

Declension
  Declension of vuku (weak short ōn-stem)
feminine singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative vuku vuku vukur vukun
dative vuku vukunn vuku vukum
compound-genitive vuku ― vuku ―
vocative vuku ― vuker ―

References
  1. Geijer, Herman. 1922. Tilljämningens och apokopens utbredningsvägar. p. 27
  2. Geijer 1922. p. 25
  3. Österberg, Karl Lorenz. 1914. Ovikens bygdemål i Jämtland. pp. 80

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms
  • vukku (Trøndelag)

Etymology 1

Metaphony of another form, viku, originally also the oblique singular form of Old Norse vika (“week”), a shared development with Jamtish vuku. A similar metaphony seems to have taken place with Old English wucu. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *wikǭ, cognate with English week.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [²ʋʉˑ.kʉ], [²ʋɵˑ.kʉ], [²ʋɵˑ.kɵ]
  • (Trøndelag) IPA(key): [²ʋʉk.kʉ]
  • (Selbu) IPA(key): [²ʋʉˑ.kʉ], def. IPA(key): [²ʋu̞ˑ.kũ̞]
  • Note: The vowels are short or half-long in all the declensions.

Noun

vuku f

  1. (dialectal, Trøndelag, Østerdal, Central Gudbrandsdal) alternative form of veke f (“week”)
Declension
  Selbu declension of vuku (weak short ōn-stem)
feminine singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative vuku vokõ, vuku vuku, vukui vukunn, vukuinn
dative ― vukunn ― vukuåm
  Sparbu declension of vuku (weak short ōn-stem)
feminine singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative vuku vuku vukua vukuan
dative ― vukun ― vukuåm
  Skogn declension of vuku (weak short ōn-stem)
feminine singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative vuku vukû vukua vukûn
dative ― vukûn ― ―

Etymology 2

Metaphony of another form, vòku, from Old Norse vǫku, oblique cases singular of vaka.

Noun

vuku f (definite singular vuko, indefinite plural vukur, definite plural vukune)

  1. (Midlandsnormalen) (pre-1917) alternative form of voke

Anagrams
  • Vuku

Rotokas

Etymology 1

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Adjective

vuku

  1. full (stomach)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Tok Pisin buk, from English book, from Middle English bok, from Old English bōc, from Proto-Germanic *bōks, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂ǵos.

Noun

vuku

  1. book
Derived terms
  • tugoropa vuku

References
  • Firchow, Irwin; Firchow, Jacqueline; Akoitai, David (1973) Vocabulary of Rotokas - Pidgin - English‎, Ukarumpa: Summer Institute of Linguistics, page 160

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

vuku

  1. dative/locative singular of vuk

Verb

vuku (Cyrillic spelling вуку)

  1. third-person plural present indicative of vući

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish وقوع‎ (vuku, “event; fall”), from Arabic وُقُوع‎‎ (wuqūʿ), verbal noun of وَقَعَ‎ (waqaʿa).

Noun

vuku (definite accusative vukuu, plural vukular)

  1. event, occurrence
    vuku bulmak ― to happen

References
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911), “وقوع”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1314
  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “vuku”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013) The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
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