niko

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ni-ku (“1sg. genitive; my; by me”).

• IPA^(key): /niˈku/ [niˈko]
• Rhymes: -u
• Syllabification: ni‧ko

nikó (Hanunoo spelling ᜨᜲᜣᜳ)

1. by me
2. of me
3. my

• Conklin, Harold C. (1953), Hanunóo-English Vocabulary (University of California Publications in Linguistics), volume 9, London, England: University of California Press, →OCLC, page 198
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*-ku”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

niko

1. Rōmaji transcription of にこ

From Proto-Polynesian *niko (“to go in circles” — compare with Samoan niʻo “to twirl”) variant of *liko₂ (compare with Samoan liʻo “circle” and liʻoliʻo “to encircle, to surround”) from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *likaw (“curve, bend, winding” — compare with Malay liku, lekuk and lengkuk “bend, curve (of roads, rivers)”, Iban likaw, Central Dusun hikou, and Tagalog líkaw)^[1] (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /ˈniko/ [ˈnikɔ]

niko

1. to coil, to form bights in ropes
2. to go around

   Synonym: pokai

niko

1. cabbage - alternative form of nīko

• Williams, Herbert William (1917), “niko”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 258
• “niko” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

• nȉtko (Croatia)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *nikъto. By surface analysis, ni- +‎ ko.

• IPA^(key): /nîko/
• Hyphenation: ni‧ko

nȉko ? (Cyrillic spelling ни̏ко)

1. no one, nobody

   Synonyms: (Kajkavian) nikdo; (Kajkavian) nigdo

   Niko nije nelegalan na ukradenoj zemlji. ― No one is illegal on stolen land. (quote by Billie Eilish on the immigration policy of the second Donald Trump administration)

niko

1. first-person singular positive degree present of -wako (“I am (around there)”)