kuo
Esperanto edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
kuo (accusative singular kuon, plural kuoj, accusative plural kuojn)
- the letter q (upper case Q), the seventeenth letter of the Latin alphabet
Lithuanian edit
Pronoun edit
kuo
- instrumental of kas
Mandarin edit
Romanization edit
kuo
- Nonstandard spelling of kuò.
Usage notes edit
- 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 edit
Noun edit
kuo
Nafaanra edit
Noun edit
kuo
Old Dutch edit
Noun edit
kuo
- cow
- Thiu kuo is swart endi thiu macat witta melk
- The cow is black and it makes white milk.
Descendants edit
Middle dutch: Coe. Dutch: Koe.
Old High German edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-West Germanic *kū, from Proto-Germanic *kūz, whence also Old Saxon kō, Old Dutch kuo, Old English cū, Old Norse kýr.
Noun edit
kuo f
Descendants edit
Sudovian edit
Etymology edit
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:
Noun edit
kuo
References edit
- Zigmas Zinkevičius (1985), “Lenkų-jotvingių žodynėlis? [A Polish-Yotvingian dictionary?]”, in Baltistica (in Lithuanian), volume 21, issue 1, page 74: “kuo ‘šuo, l. pios’ 152.”
Zou edit
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Cardinal : kuo | ||
Etymology edit
From Proto-Kuki-Chin *kua, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-kwa. Cognates include Hakka 九 (kiú) and Burmese ကိုး (kui:).
Pronunciation edit
Numeral edit
kúo
References edit
- Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 51