auk
English
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Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Icelandic álka, from Old Norse alka (“auk”), from Proto-Germanic *alkǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁el- (“a kind of bird”). Cognate with Swedish alka (“auk”), Norwegian and Danish alke (“auk”), Swedish dialectal alla (“long-tailed duck”) (Clangula hyemalis, syn. Fuligula glacialis), Latin olor (“swan”), Ancient Greek ἐλέα (eléa, “marsh-bird”), Welsh alarch (“swan”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ɔːk/
- Rhymes: -ɔːk
- Homophones: awk; orc (non-rhotic)
Noun
[edit]auk (plural auks)
- Any of several species of Arctic sea birds of the family Alcidae.
- Synonym: alcid
- 2018 June 20, Louise Tickle, The Guardian[1]:
- Further afield, these auks are also in dire straits: Norway has seen vertiginous crashes, with hundreds of thousands of adult puffins in the once-teeming colony of Røst struggling to fledge any chicks in recent years.
Derived terms
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Anagrams
[edit]Estonian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Finnic *aukko. Cognate to Finnish aukko, Livonian ouk and Votic aukko.
Noun
[edit]auk (genitive augu, partitive auku)
Declension
[edit]Declension of auk (ÕS type 22e/riik, k-g gradation) | |||
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singular | plural | ||
nominative | auk | augud | |
accusative | nom. | ||
gen. | augu | ||
genitive | aukude | ||
partitive | auku | auke aukusid | |
illative | auku augusse |
aukudesse augesse | |
inessive | augus | aukudes auges | |
elative | august | aukudest augest | |
allative | augule | aukudele augele | |
adessive | augul | aukudel augel | |
ablative | augult | aukudelt augelt | |
translative | auguks | aukudeks augeks | |
terminative | auguni | aukudeni | |
essive | auguna | aukudena | |
abessive | auguta | aukudeta | |
comitative | auguga | aukudega |
Derived terms
[edit]Gothic
[edit]Romanization
[edit]auk
- Romanization of 𐌰𐌿𐌺
Icelandic
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[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Preposition
[edit]auk
- (governs the genitive) in addition to
Derived terms
[edit]- að auki, þar að auki (besides, moreover)
- auk heldur
- auk þess heldur, aukin heldur
- auk þess
Inuktitut
[edit]Noun
[edit]auk
- Latin spelling of ᐊᐅᒃ (aok)
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Verb
[edit]auk
- imperative of auke
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Verb
[edit]auk
- imperative of auka
Old Norse
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Germanic *auk (“also”). Cognate with Old English ēac, Old Frisian āk, Old Saxon ōk, Old High German ouh, Gothic 𐌰𐌿𐌺 (auk).
Conjunction
[edit]auk (runic script ᛅᚢᚴ)
Descendants
[edit]- Icelandic: auk, og
- Faroese: og
- Norwegian Nynorsk: og, au, aug; (dialectal) ok, auk, ug
- → Norwegian Bokmål: au
- Jamtish: og
- Elfdalian: og
- Old Swedish: ok, oc, och, ogh
- Old Danish: oc
- → Middle English: oc, ok
Sakizaya
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]auk
Tocharian B
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Tocharian *ewk, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ógʷʰis. Cognate with Ancient Greek ὄφις (óphis) and Sanskrit अहि (ahi).
Noun
[edit]auk ?
Yup'ik
[edit]Noun
[edit]auk
- English terms derived from Icelandic
- English terms derived from Old Norse
- English terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English 1-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:English/ɔːk
- Rhymes:English/ɔːk/1 syllable
- English terms with homophones
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English terms with quotations
- en:Auks
- Estonian terms inherited from Proto-Finnic
- Estonian terms derived from Proto-Finnic
- Estonian lemmas
- Estonian nouns
- Estonian riik-type nominals
- Gothic non-lemma forms
- Gothic romanizations
- Icelandic terms inherited from Old Norse
- Icelandic terms derived from Old Norse
- Icelandic terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Icelandic/øyːk
- Rhymes:Icelandic/øyːk/1 syllable
- Icelandic lemmas
- Icelandic prepositions
- Icelandic prepositions that govern the genitive
- Inuktitut lemmas
- Inuktitut nouns
- Inuktitut terms in Latin script
- Norwegian Bokmål non-lemma forms
- Norwegian Bokmål verb forms
- Norwegian Nynorsk non-lemma forms
- Norwegian Nynorsk verb forms
- Old Norse terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Old Norse terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Old Norse lemmas
- Old Norse conjunctions
- Sakizaya terms with IPA pronunciation
- Sakizaya lemmas
- Sakizaya nouns
- Tocharian B terms inherited from Proto-Tocharian
- Tocharian B terms derived from Proto-Tocharian
- Tocharian B terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Tocharian B terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Tocharian B lemmas
- Tocharian B nouns
- txb:Reptiles
- Yup'ik lemmas
- Yup'ik nouns
- esu:Body