# cô
## Canela
### Etymology

From Proto-Northern Jê *ŋgô (“water”) < Proto-Cerrado *ŋgôj’ (“water”) < (?) Proto-Jê *ŋgə̂₁j’ ~ *ŋgə̂₂j (“water”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ko/

### Noun

cô
* water
    Me cupê cô jamreara.They had no water./There was no water for them.
    Cô te arỳjhy jaxir.The water covered the rice.

## Ligurian
### Noun

cô m (please provide plural)
* color

## Sicilian
### Preposition

cô
* Contraction of cu lu (“with the”).

## Slovincian
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *čьto.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈt͡sɵ/
* Rhymes: -ɵ
* Syllabification: cô

### Conjunction

cô
* introduces a subordinate clause; that; in order to
* so that

### Particle

cô
* Introduces indirect speech.
* as such

### Pronoun

cô
* interrogative pronoun; what?
* relative pronoun; that what..., which, that

### Further reading

* Lorentz, Friedrich (1908) “cɵ”, in Slovinzisches Wörterbuch‎ (in German), volume 1, Saint Petersburg: ОРЯС ИАН, page 127
* Lorentz, Friedrich (1908) “cʉ̀ɵ̯”, in Slovinzisches Wörterbuch‎ (in German), volume 1, Saint Petersburg: ОРЯС ИАН, page 128

## Vietnamese
### Pronunciation

* (Hà Nội) IPA: [ko˧˧]
* (Huế) IPA: [kow˧˧]
* (Saigon) IPA: [kow˧˧]
* Audio (Saigon):(file)

### Etymology 1

Sino-Vietnamese word from 姑.

#### Noun

cô
* a paternal aunt (father's sister)

##### Usage notes

* In cô chú (“paternal aunt and her husband”), cô cậu (“you girls and boys”), vợ chồng (“wife and husband”), dì dượng (“maternal aunt and her husband; stepmother and stepfather”), the words for females always come first. In most other phrases, the words for males usually come first, except in certain poetic contexts such as mẹ cha (“mum and dad”) as opposed to the usual cha mẹ (“dad and mum”).

##### Derived terms

* cô bé (“little girl”)
* cô gái (“girl; young woman”)
* cổ
* sư cô

##### See also

* chú
* dượng

#### Pronoun

cô
* I/me, your paternal aunt
    Antonyms: cháu, con
* I/me, a woman who's (presumably) slightly younger than either of your parents
    Antonyms: cháu, con
* you, my paternal aunt
    Antonyms: cháu, con
* you, a woman who's (presumably) slightly younger than either of my parents
    Antonyms: cháu, con
* (familiar) you, a female who's (presumably) slightly younger than me
    Synonym: em
    Antonyms: anh, tôi
* (honorific) you, my young mistress, my old master's daughter
* (formal, chiefly in fiction or translation) you, a young adult woman
    Synonym: chị
    Antonym: tôi
* (unfriendly) you, my wife with whom I'm not happy
    Antonym: tôi
* (humorous or ironic) you, Missy or young lady
    Synonym: cô nương
    Antonym: tôi
* (literary) she/her, that young adult woman

##### Synonyms

* o

##### See also

* anh

### Etymology 2

Short for cô giáo (“female teacher”).

#### Noun

cô
* (informal) Short for cô giáo (“female teacher”).

#### Pronoun

cô
* I/me, your older female teacher
    Antonym: em
* you, my older female teacher
    Antonym: em
* you, my or my child's female teacher who's (presumably) as old as or younger than me
    Antonym: tôi
* you, my child's female teacher who's (presumably) slightly older than me
    Antonym: em
* she/her, my/your/our female teacher

##### Synonyms

* o

#### See also

* thầy

### Etymology 3

Sino-Vietnamese word from 孤 (“lonesome”).

#### Pronoun

cô
* (Chinese fiction, humble) I/me
** 14th century, Luo Guanzhong Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Ch. 78; 1909 Vietnamese translation by Phan Kế Bính
    Hán Trung vương nói: - Cô kết nghĩa với Quan, Trương hai em ở vườn đào, thề cùng sống thác với nhau. Nay Vân Trường chẳng may bị hại, cô sao hưởng phú quý một mình được!The King of Hanzhong said: - I swore an oath of fraternal rectitude with my two younger oath-brothers Guan, Zhang in the peach garden, pledging to live and die together. Now [Guan] Yunzhang unfortunately has been maliciously murdered, how can I enjoy riches by myself?

#### See also

* quả nhân
* trẫm
* bất cốc