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cucu

See also: cucú, cucù, cücü, and cu'cu'

Asturian edit

Etymology edit

From Late Latin cucus or cuccus, or Latin cuculus or Ancient Greek κόκκυξ (kókkux).

Noun edit

cucu m (plural cucos)

  1. cuckoo

Brunei Malay edit

Etymology edit

Cognate with Malay cucu.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃut͡ʃu/
  • Hyphenation: cu‧cu

Noun edit

cucu

  1. grandchild (child of someone's child)

French edit

Pronunciation edit

  • Audio(file)

Noun edit

cucu m (plural cucus)

  1. Alternative form of cucul

Adjective edit

cucu (feminine cucue, masculine plural cucus, feminine plural cucues)

  1. Alternative form of cucul

Further reading edit

Indonesian edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Malay cucu, from Classical Malay [script needed] (cucu), from Old Malay [script needed] (cucu), attested in the Laguna Copperplate Inscription, from Proto-Malayic *cucuʔ.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

cucu (plural cucu-cucu, first-person possessive cucuku, second-person possessive cucumu, third-person possessive cucunya)

  1. grandchild (child of someone’s child)

Further reading edit

Interlingua edit

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

cucu (plural cucus)

  1. cuckoo
  2. cuckold

Malay edit

Etymology edit

Attested in the Laguna Copperplate Inscription, 900 AD, as [script needed] (cucu).[1] From Proto-Malayic *cucuʔ.[2] Probably from duplication of Proto-Mon-Khmer *cuuʔ (“grandchild”).[3]

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

cucu (Jawi spelling چوچو‎, plural cucu-cucu, informal 1st possessive cucuku, 2nd possessive cucumu, 3rd possessive cucunya)

  1. grandchild (child of someone’s child)

Derived terms edit

Affixed terms and other derivations

Regular affixed derivations:

Descendants edit

  • Baba Malay: chuchu
  • Brunei Malay: cucu
  • Indonesian: cucu
  • → Makasar: cucu
  • → Manado Malay: cucu

References edit

  1. ^ Postma, Antoon (1991), “The Laguna Copper-Plate Inscription: A Valuable Philippine Document”, in Indo-Pacific Prehistory 1990 Assn. Bulletin 11‎[1] (PDF), volume 2, Mansalay, Oriental Mindoro, Philippines: Mangyan Assistance and Research Center, page 169.
  2. ^ Adelaar, K. A. (1992) Proto-Malayic: The reconstruction of its phonology and parts of its lexicon and morphology‎[2], Canberra: The Australian National University
  3. ^ H. L. Shorto (2006) A Mon-Khmer comparative dictionary‎[3], Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, →ISBN, →OCLC

Further reading edit

Mapudungun edit

Noun edit

cucu (Raguileo spelling)

  1. maternal grandmother
  2. grandchild

See also edit

References edit

  • Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.

Old English edit

Adjective edit

cucu

  1. Alternative form of cwic

Romanian edit

Etymology edit

Onomatopoeic.

Interjection edit

cucu

  1. coo-coo (cry made by a cuckoo)

See also edit

Sakizaya edit

Noun edit

cucu

  1. (anatomy) breast
  2. milk
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