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koh

See also: Koh, köh, and Köh

Hokkien edit

For pronunciation and definitions of koh – see 閣 (“again”).
(This term is the pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 閣).

Hungarian edit

Etymology edit

Uncertain. Perhaps a borrowing from Middle High German kuche (though this explanation has semantic issues), or possibly a back-formation from kohol (“to fabricate, trump up”) (though the opposite direction, koh + -ol, might be more likely).[1][2]

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [ˈkox]
  • Hyphenation: koh
  • Rhymes: -ox

Noun edit

koh (plural kohok)

  1. (archaic) Alternative form of kohó (“furnace”, a place where ore is melted to create metal)
    Synonyms: hámor, huta

Declension edit

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative koh kohok
accusative kohot kohokat
dative kohnak kohoknak
instrumental kohhal kohokkal
causal-final kohért kohokért
translative kohhá kohokká
terminative kohig kohokig
essive-formal kohként kohokként
essive-modal — —
inessive kohban kohokban
superessive kohon kohokon
adessive kohnál kohoknál
illative kohba kohokba
sublative kohra kohokra
allative kohhoz kohokhoz
elative kohból kohokból
delative kohról kohokról
ablative kohtól kohoktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		kohé kohoké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		kohéi kohokéi
Possessive forms of koh
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. kohom kohjaim
2nd person sing. kohod kohjaid
3rd person sing. kohja kohjai
1st person plural kohunk kohjaink
2nd person plural kohotok kohjaitok
3rd person plural kohjuk kohjaik

Derived terms edit

References edit

  1. ^ koh in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN.  (See also its 2nd edition.)
  2. ^ kohó in Tótfalusi, István. Magyar etimológiai nagyszótár (’Hungarian Comprehensive Dictionary of Etymology’). Budapest: Arcanum Adatbázis, 2001; Arcanum DVD Könyvtár →ISBN

Further reading edit

  • koh in Czuczor, Gergely and János Fogarasi: A magyar nyelv szótára (’A Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Pest: Emich Gusztáv Magyar Akadémiai Nyomdász, 1862–1874.

Seneca edit

Conjunction edit

koh

  1. and

References edit

  • Wallace Chafe (2014) A Grammar of the Seneca Language, University of California Press, page 149

Yucatec Maya edit

Alternative forms edit

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Proto-Mayan *kooh.

Alternative forms edit

Noun edit

koh

  1. tooth
  2. beak

References edit

  • Beltrán de Santa Rosa María, Pedro (1746) Arte de el idioma maya reducido a succintas reglas, y semilexicon yucateco (in Spanish), Mexico: Por la Biuda de D. Joseph Bernardo de Hogal, page 165: “Co. sssssssssssss Diente.”
  • Montgomery, John (2004) Maya-English, English-Maya (Yucatec) Dictionary & Phrasebook, New York: Hippocrene Books, Inc., →ISBN, page 62

Etymology 2 edit

From Proto-Mayan *kOj.

Alternative forms edit

Noun edit

koh

  1. mountain lion (Puma concolor)

References edit

  • Beltrán de Santa Rosa María, Pedro (1746) Arte de el idioma maya reducido a succintas reglas, y semilexicon yucateco (in Spanish), Mexico: Por la Biuda de D. Joseph Bernardo de Hogal, page 176: “Leon, y Leoparde. Coh, chaccbo ay”
  • Montgomery, John (2004) Maya-English, English-Maya (Yucatec) Dictionary & Phrasebook, New York: Hippocrene Books, Inc., →ISBN, page 62
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