uko

Compare with Èkìtì Yoruba èrèkò, Yoruba àsìkò, Igala ìkò

• IPA^(key): /ù.kò/

ùkò

1. time, occasion, era

• ùkò úgwázú (“future”)

uko

1. second-person singular positive degree present of -wako (“you are (around there)”)
2. m class_(III)/u class_(XI) positive degree present of -wako (“it is (around there)”)

From Proto-Vanikoro *ukə, from earlier *uk < *ut, from Proto-Oceanic *kutu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kutu, from Proto-Austronesian *kuCu.

• IPA^(key): /uko/

uko

1. louse

• François, Alexandre. 2021. Teanu dictionary (Solomon Islands). Dictionaria 15. 1-1877. DOI:10.5281/zenodo.5653063. – entry uko.
• François, Alexandre. 2021. Online Teanu–English dictionary, with equivalents in Lovono and Tanema. Electronic files. Paris: CNRS. – entry uko.
• Lackey, W.J.. & Boerger, B.H. (2021) “Reexamining the Phonological History of Oceanic's Temotu subgroup”, in Oceanic Linguistics.

• ìkó

From Proto-Yoruboid *ù-kó, equivalent to ù- (“nominalizing prefix”) +‎ kó (“to gather, to scoop up”). While in Standard Yoruba and Northwest Yoruba, the alternative form ìkó only translates to the beak of the bird (with the term ètè referring to the mammalian lip), in the Central and Southeast Yoruba dialects (ùkó), it retains its general meaning as a term for the lip of any mammal and the beak of a bird. Compare with Igala ùkó (“lip”).

• IPA^(key): /ù.kó/

ùkó

1. (chiefly CY, anatomy, zootomy) beak; lip