kuo

Abbreviation of English Kumukio.

kuo

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Kumukio.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Kumukio terms

From French ku.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuo/

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• Rhymes: -uo
• Syllabification: 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

The o is occasionally dropped, usually when spelling out words. E.g. QED would frequently be spelled out "ku e do" instead of "kuo e do" in Esperanto.

kuo

1. instrumental of kas

• IPA^(key): [kùò]

kuo

1. to burn

• Amanda Bohnert, Kelly Harper Berkson, Sui Hnem Par (2022), “Vowel Sounds in Hnaring Lutuv”, in Indiana Working Papers in South Asian Languages and Cultures‎^[1], volume 3, number 1

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

• kū, kō, chuo

Inherited from Old High German kuo.

• IPA^(key): (before 13^th CE) /ˈkuo̯/ (classical Middle High German)
• IPA^(key): (before 13^th CE) /ˈk͡xuo̯/ (Upper German)
• IPA^(key): (before 13^th CE) /ˈkuː/, /ˈkoː/ (later Central German)

kuo f

1. cow

• Alemannic German: Chue
  • Alsatian: Küeh
  • Walser: Chua
• Bavarian: Kuah, Kouh (Northern Bavarian), Kua (spelling variant)
  • Cimbrian: khua
  • Mòcheno: kua
• Central Franconian: Kuh, Koh
  • Hunsrik: Kuh
  • Luxembourgish: Kou
• East Franconian: Kou, Kua, Kuu
• German: Kuh
• Rhine Franconian:
  • Pennsylvania German: Kuh
• Vilamovian: kü
• Yiddish: קו (ku)

• Benecke, Georg Friedrich; Müller, Wilhelm; Zarncke, Friedrich (1863), “KUO”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch: mit Benutzung des Nachlasses von Benecke, Stuttgart: S. Hirzel
• Köbler, Gerhard (2014), “kuo”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition

kuo

1. society, organization

• chuo

Inherited from Proto-West Germanic *kō.

kuo f

1. cow

• Middle High German: kuo, kū, kō, chuo
  • Alemannic German: Chue
    • Alsatian: Küeh
    • Walser: Chua
  • Bavarian: Kuah, Kouh (Northern Bavarian), Kua (spelling variant)
    • Cimbrian: khua
    • Mòcheno: kua
  • Central Franconian: Kuh, Koh
    • Hunsrik: Kuh
    • Luxembourgish: Kou
  • East Franconian: Kou, Kua, Kuu
  • German: Kuh
  • Rhine Franconian:
    • Pennsylvania German: Kuh
  • Vilamovian: kü
  • Yiddish: קו (ku)

• Köbler, Gerhard (2014), “kuo”, in Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch‎^[2] (in German), 6th edition

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 šlei̇̃vas : klei̇̃vas, 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

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