# uku
## Balinese
### Romanization

uku
* Romanization of ᬳᬸᬓᬸ

## Greenlandic
### Pronunciation

* (Nuuk) IPA: /uku/, [u.kʊ]

### Particle

uku
* plural of una, a hyphenated or assimilated enclitic which denotes to be.
    e.g. tuttunuku
       They are reindeers.
    e.g. inuit-uku?
       Are they humans?

### Pronoun

uku
* they
* them
* these
* their

## Hausa
### Etymology

Cognate with Bura kwan, Goemai kun, Beele kunu, Bole kúnūː, Kirfi kúnū, Galambu kūːn, Gera kùnú, Deno kúnú, Duwai kô, Ngamo kùnû, Karekare kūnù, Tal ƙún.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʔú.kù/
** (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA: [ʔʊ́.kʷʊ̀]

### Numeral

ukù f
* three

## Hawaiian
### Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *utu, from Proto-Oceanic *utuŋ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *utuŋ (compare Maori utu, Malay untung).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈu.ku/

### Noun

uku
* payment, reward, prize, commission, compensation

### References

* Pukui, Mary Kawena, Elbert, Samuel H. (1986) “uku”, in Hawaiian Dictionary, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press

## Hawaiian Creole
### Etymology

From Hawaiian ʻuku (“louse, flea”).

### Noun

uku
* head lice
    She wen get ukus all ova her hea.She had head lice all over her hair.

## Japanese
### Romanization

uku
* Rōmaji transcription of うく

## Kwoma
### Noun

uku
* water

### References

* transnewguinea.org, citing D. C. Laycock, Languages of the Lumi Subdistrict (West Sepik District), New Guinea (1968), Oceanic Linguistics, 7 (1): 36-66

## Limos Kalinga
### Noun

ukú
* knife

## Maore Comorian
### Noun

uku class 11 (plural mauku class 6)
* night

### References

* “uku” in Outils & Ressources pour l'Exploitation de la Langue Comorienne, 2008.

## Maori
### Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *uku (“to scour, to wipe”) (compare with Samoan uʻu (“to smear, to annoint”), Tongan ukuʻi (“to wash”)), (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Noun

uku
* clay
* pottery
* soap

### References

* ↑ Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary‎, Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, page 575
* ↑ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “uku”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online

### Further reading

* “uku” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

Initial dropping of vuku, a metaphony of viku, from the oblique singular form of Old Norse vika f (“week”). From Proto-Germanic *wikǭ. A similar process seems to have taken place with Old English wucu. Akin to English week.

### Noun

uku f
* (dialectal, Orkdal) alternative form of veke

### References

* Ivar Aasen (1850) “Uku”, in Ordbog over det norske Folkesprog‎ (in Danish), Oslo: Samlaget, published 2000

## Prasuni
### Etymology

From earlier *ukru, from Proto-Nuristani *ãkura, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hankurás (“bend”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂enkulós, from *h₂enk- (“to bend”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /uˈku/ (tone class C)

### Noun

uku (Pronz)
* shoulder

### References

* ↑ Strand, Richard F. (2016) “uk′u”, in Nûristânî Etymological Lexicon‎

## Quechua
### Noun

uku
* Alternative spelling of ukhu

#### Declension
## Seim
### Noun

uku
* water

### References

* transnewguinea.org, citing D. C. Laycock, Languages of the Lumi Subdistrict (West Sepik District), New Guinea (1968), Oceanic Linguistics, 7 (1): 36-66

## Ternate
### Etymology

From Proto-North Halmahera *uku (“fire”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈu.ku]

### Noun

uku
* fire

### References

* Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh
* Gary Holton, Marian Klamer (2018) The Papuan languages of East Nusantara and the Bird's Head‎

## Tidore
### Etymology

From Proto-North Halmahera *uku (“fire”).

### Noun

uku
* fire

## Yoruba
### Etymology 1

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

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ū.kú/

#### Noun

ukú
* (Ekiti, Ijebu) death

##### Alternative forms

* ikú

### Etymology 2

u- (“nominalizing prefix”) +‎ kù (“to grumble”)

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ū.kù/

#### Noun

ukù
* (Ikalẹ, Ijebu, Ekiti, Usẹn) Ìkálẹ̀ and Ìjẹ̀bú form of ikùn (“stomach”)