# auk
## English
### Alternative forms

* awk, alk

### Etymology

From Icelandic álka, from Old Norse alka (“auk”), from Proto-Germanic *alkǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁el- (“a kind of bird”). Cognate with Swedish alka (“auk”), Norwegian and Danish alke (“auk”), Swedish dialectal alla (“long-tailed duck”) (Clangula hyemalis, syn. Fuligula glacialis), Latin olor (“swan”), Ancient Greek ἐλέα (eléa, “marsh-bird”), Welsh alarch (“swan”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɔːk/
* Rhymes: -ɔːk
* Homophones: awk; orc (non-rhotic)

### Noun

auk (plural auks)
* Any of several species of Arctic sea birds of the family Alcidae.
    Synonym: alcid
** 2018 June 20, Louise Tickle, The Guardian‎:Further afield, these auks are also in dire straits: Norway has seen vertiginous crashes, with hundreds of thousands of adult puffins in the once-teeming colony of Røst struggling to fledge any chicks in recent years.

#### Derived terms

* auklet
* great auk
* lesser auk
* little auk
* parakeet auk
* paroquet auk
* perroquet auk
* razor-billed auk

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* Kau

## Estonian
### Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *aukko. Cognate to Finnish aukko, Livonian ouk and Votic aukko.

### Noun

auk (genitive augu, partitive auku)
* hole, cavity
* pit
* gap, opening

#### Derived terms

* must auk
* auklik

## Gothic
### Romanization

auk
* Romanization of 𐌰𐌿𐌺

## Icelandic
### Alternative forms

* auki (in "að auk(i)")

### Etymology

From Old Norse auk.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [øyːk]
    Rhymes: -øyːk

### Preposition

auk
* in addition to [with genitive]

#### Derived terms

* að auki, þar að auki (“besides, moreover”)
* auk heldur
* auk þess heldur, aukin heldur
* auk þess

### References

* Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon (1989) Íslensk orðsifjabók, Reykjavík: Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, →ISBN (Available at Málið.is under the “Eldri orðabækur” tab.)
* Kristín Bjarnadóttir, editor (2002–2025), “auk”, in Beygingarlýsing íslensks nútímamáls [The Database of Modern Icelandic Inflection] (in Icelandic), Reykjavík: The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies
* Mörður Árnason (2019) Íslensk orðabók, 5th edition, Reykjavík: Forlagið
* “auk” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)

## Inuktitut
### Noun

auk
* Latin spelling of ᐊᐅᒃ (aok)

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Verb

auk
* imperative of auke

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Verb

auk
* imperative of auka

## Old Norse
### Alternative forms

* ok

### Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *auk (“also”). Cognate with Old English ēac, Old Frisian āk, Old Saxon ōk, Old High German ouh, Gothic 𐌰𐌿𐌺 (auk).

### Conjunction

auk (runic script ᛅᚢᚴ)
* and
* also, too

#### Descendants

* Icelandic: auk, og
* Faroese: og
* Norwegian Nynorsk: og, au, aug; (dialectal) ok, auk, ug
** → Norwegian Bokmål: au
* Jamtish: og
* Elfdalian: og
* Old Swedish: ok, oc, och, ogh
** Swedish: och, ock
* Old Danish: oc
** Danish: og
*** Norwegian Bokmål: og
* → Middle English: oc, ok
** ⇒ Scots: okname, ockname

## Sakizaya
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /a.ˈuk/, [a.ˈok]

### Noun

auk
* bamboo

## Tocharian B
### Etymology

From Proto-Tocharian *ewk, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ógʷʰis. Cognate with Ancient Greek ὄφις (óphis) and Sanskrit अहि (ahi).

### Noun

auk ?
* snake, serpent

## Yup'ik
### Noun

auk
* blood