iku

Translingual

Symbol

iku

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

Acehnese

Etymology

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

Noun

iku

1. tail (appendage of an animal)

Gothic

Romanization

iku

1. Romanization of 𐌹𐌺𐌿

Iban

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.kʊʔ/

Noun

iku

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

Classifier

iku

1. Classifier used for animals and people.

   Tiga iku mayau ― Three cats

   Dua puluh iku pengajar ― Twenty teachers

Japanese

Romanization

iku

1. Rōmaji transcription of いく

Javanese

Alternative forms

• kuwi (dialectal)

Determiner

iku

1. that, those

Kanakanabu

Etymology

From Proto-Austronesian *(i-)aku.

Pronoun

iku

1. I (personal pronoun)

Yilan Creole

Etymology

From Japanese 行く (iku, “to go”).

Verb

iku (realis negative ikanay, irrealis negative ikang)

1. to go

Related terms

• tike, tikang

References

• 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 (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎^[2]

Yoruba

Alternative forms

• ukú

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ī.kú/

Noun

ikú

1. death

   Synonyms: ìwàjà, ìtẹrígbaṣọ, ìpapòdà (euphemisms)

Derived terms

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

Yosondúa Mixtec

Etymology

From Proto-Mixtec *íkú.

Adverb

iku

1. yesterday

Derived terms

• iku ñuu
• jakuaa iku

 

References

• 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)‎^[3] (in Spanish), third edition, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 10