iku

Abbreviation of English Inuktitut, from Inuktitut ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ (inoktitot).

iku

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Inuktitut.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Inuktitut terms

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ikuʀ, *ikuŋ, compare Malay ekor.

iku

1. tail (appendage of an animal)

iku

1. third-person singular aorist indicative of iki

iku

1. romanization of 𐌹𐌺𐌿

From Proto-Malayic *ikur, *ikuŋ (compare Brunei Malay ekong, Malay ekor, Minangkabau ikua), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ikuʀ, *ikuŋ (compare Acehnese iku, Balinese ikut, Buginese ikkoʔ), from Proto-Austronesian *ikuʀ.

• IPA^(key): /i.kʊʔ/

iku

1. (anatomy) tail (appendage of an animal)

iku

1. Classifier used for animals and people.

   Tiga iku mayau ― Three cats

   Dua puluh iku pengajar ― Twenty teachers

iku

1. Rōmaji transcription of いく

• kuwi (dialectal)

iku

1. that, those

From Proto-Austronesian *(i-)aku.

iku

1. I (personal pronoun)

From Japanese 行く (iku, “to go”).

iku (realis negative ikanay, irrealis negative ikang)

1. to go

   anta doko iku?

   Where are you going?

   tayhoku iku no cyoli

   people who will go to Taipei

• tike, tikang

• Chien Yuehchen; Shinji Sanada (2011), “台湾の宜蘭クレオールにおける否定辞―「ナイ」と「ン」の変容をめぐって― [Negation in Taiwan’s Yilan Creole: Focusing on -nay and -ng]”, in 言語研究 [Gengo Kenkyu]‎^[1], number 140, pages 73-87
• 真田信治 [Shinji Sanada] (2015), “宜蘭クレオールにおけるsound substitutionについて [On the sound substitution of Yilan Creole]”, in 奈良大学紀要 [Memoirs of Nara University]‎^[2] (in Japanese), number 43
• Chien Yuehchen (2023), “Yilan Creole”, in Handbook of Formosan Languages Online: The Indigenous Languages of Taiwan‎^[3], number 44, →ISSN

• ukú

i- (“non-gerundive nominalizer”) +‎ kú (“to die”)

• IPA^(key): /ī.kú/

ikú

1. death

   Synonyms: ìwàjà, ìtẹrígbaṣọ, ìpapòdà (euphemisms)

• ọjọ́ ikú (“time of death”)
• Ikú (“the personification of death”)

From Proto-Mixtec *íkú.

iku

1. yesterday

• Beaty de Farris, Kathryn; et al. (2012), Diccionario básico del mixteco de Yosondúa, Oaxaca (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 46)‎^[4] (in Spanish), third edition, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 10