Volapük

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Etymology

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From hi- +‎ gok.

Noun

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higok (nominative plural higoks)

  1. cock, rooster, male fowl
    • Gospul ma ‚Ioannes‛, 13.38, translated by Arie de Jong, 1952.
      Yesus äsagom: «Vilol-li klemön lifi olik pro ob? Vö! vö! sagob ole, higok no okravom, büä unoädol kilna obi».
      Jesus said: "Do you want to forsake your life for me? Truly, truly!, I say you, the cock will not crow, before you will have renounced me thrice."

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