See also: kuò, kuǒ, and ku'o

Esperanto edit

 
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Etymology edit

From French ku.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [ˈkuo]
  • Audio:
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  • Rhymes: -uo
  • Hyphenation: ku‧o

Noun edit

kuo (accusative singular kuon, plural kuoj, accusative plural kuojn)

  1. the letter q (upper case Q), the seventeenth letter of the Latin alphabet

Lithuanian edit

Pronoun edit

kuo

  1. instrumental of kas

Mandarin edit

Romanization edit

kuo

  1. 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

  1. (rare) Alternative spelling of coe

Nafaanra edit

Noun edit

kuo

  1. society, organization

Old Dutch edit

Noun edit

kuo

  1. 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 , Old Dutch kuo, Old English , Old Norse kýr.

Noun edit

kuo f

  1. cow

Descendants edit

  • Middle High German: kuo

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

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

References edit

Zou edit

Zou cardinal numbers
 <  8 9 10  > 
    Cardinal : kuo

Etymology edit

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *kua, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-kwa. Cognates include Hakka (kiú) and Burmese ကိုး (kui:).

Pronunciation edit

Numeral edit

kúo

  1. nine

References edit

  • Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 51