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

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Middle Dutch

Noun

kuo

1. (rare) Alternative spelling of coe

Nafaanra

Noun

kuo

1. society, organization

Old Dutch

Noun

kuo

1. cow

   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 *kō (“cow”).

Noun

kuo f

1. cow

Descendants

• Middle High German: kuo
  • Alemannic German: Chue

    Alsatian: Küeh

    Walser: Chua

  • Bavarian: Kuah

    Cimbrian: khua

    Mòcheno: kua

  • Central Franconian: Koh, Kuh

    Hunsrik: Kuh

    Luxembourgish: Kou

  • East Franconian: Kou, Kua, Kuu
  • German: Kuh
  • Pennsylvania German: Kuh
  • Vilamovian: kü
  • Yiddish: קו (ku)

Sudovian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic *śwṓ, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwṓ. Compare Lithuanian šuõ, Latvian suns, Old Prussian sunis.

For kuo instead of expected *suo／*szuo see:

• typo: aktis (also geptis)
• -k- : -s-/-š- alternation: Lithuanian šleĩvas : kleĩvas, šaũkti : kaũkti

Noun

kuo

1. (zoology) dog (originall Polish gloss: pios)

References

• Zigmas Zinkevičius (1985) “Lenkų-jotvingių žodynėlis? [A Polish-Yotvingian dictionary?]”, in Baltistica, volume 21, number 1 (in Lithuanian), Vilnius: VU, →DOI, page 74: “kuo ‘šuo, l. pios’ 152.”

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