# kuo
## Esperanto
### Etymology

From French ku.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈkuo]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -uo
* Hyphenation: ku‧o

### Noun

kuo (accusative singular kuon, plural kuoj, accusative plural kuojn)
* the letter q (upper case Q), the seventeenth letter of the Latin alphabet

#### Usage notes

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.

## Lithuanian
### Pronoun

kuo
* instrumental of kas

## Lutuv
### Pronunciation

IPA: [kùò]

### Verb

kuo
* to burn

### References

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

## Mandarin
### Romanization

kuo
* Nonstandard spelling of kuò.

#### Usage notes

* 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.

## Middle Dutch
### Noun

kuo
* (rare) Alternative spelling of coe

## Middle High German
### Alternative forms

* kū, kō, chuo

### Etymology

From Old High German kuo, from Proto-West Germanic *kō, from Proto-Germanic *kōz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (classical) /kuə̯/, (southern Upper German) /kxuə̯/, (later Central German) /kuː ~ koː/

### Noun

kuo f
* cow

#### Descendants

* 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)

### References

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

## Nafaanra
### Noun

kuo
* society, organization

## Old High German
### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *kō, from Proto-Germanic *kōz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws.

### Noun

kuo f
* cow

#### Descendants

* 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)

### References

* "kuo" in Köbler, Gerhard, Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch (6th edition 2014)

## Sudovian
### Etymology

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 šleĩvas : kleĩvas, šaũkti : kaũkti

### Noun

kuo
* (zoology) dog (originall Polish gloss: pios)

### References

* 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.”

## Zou
### Etymology

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *kua, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-kwa. Cognates include Hakka 九 (kiú) and Burmese ကိုး (kui:).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ku˧˥.o˧/

### Numeral

kúo
* nine

### References

* Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 51