kuo

From French ku.

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

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

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

kuo

1. instrumental of kas

kuo

1. Nonstandard spelling of kuò.

• 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.

kuo

1. (rare) Alternative spelling of coe

kuo

1. society, organization

kuo

1. cow

   Thiu kuo is swart endi thiu macat witta melk

   The cow is black and it makes white milk.

Middle dutch: Coe. Dutch: Koe.

From Proto-West Germanic *kō (“cow”).

kuo f

1. cow

• Middle High German: kuo
  • Alemannic German: Chue

    Alsatian: Küeh

    Walser: Chua

  • Bavarian: Kuah

    Cimbrian: khua

    Mòcheno: kua

  • Central Franconian: Koh, Kuh

    Hunsrik: Kuh

    Luxembourgish: Kou

  • East Franconian: Kou, Kua, Kuu
  • German: Kuh
  • Pennsylvania German: Kuh
  • Vilamovian: kü
  • Yiddish: קו (ku)

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:

• typo: aktis (also geptis)
• -k- : -s-/-š- alternation: Lithuanian šleĩvas : kleĩvas, šaũkti : kaũkti

kuo

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

• Zigmas Zinkevičius (1985) “Lenkų-jotvingių žodynėlis? [A Polish-Yotvingian dictionary?]”, in Baltistica, volume 21, number 1 (in Lithuanian), Vilnius: VU, →DOI, page 74: “kuo ‘šuo, l. pios’ 152.”

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *kua, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-kwa. Cognates include Hakka 九 (kiú) and Burmese ကိုး (kui:).

• IPA^(key): /ku˧˥.o˧/

kúo

1. nine

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