auk

See also: auk-

English

Auks, Aethia psittacula

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^(key): /ɔːk/
• Rhymes: -ɔːk
• Homophones: awk, orc (in non-rhotic accents)

Noun

auk (plural auks)

1. Any of several species of Arctic sea birds of the family Alcidae.

   Synonym: alcid

   • 2018 June 20, Louise Tickle, The Guardian‎^[1]:

     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

• great auk
• little auk
• parakeet auk
• paroquet auk
• perroquet auk
• razor-billed auk

 

Translations

seabird of the family Alcidae

• Asturian: pingüín (ast)
• Bulgarian: гагарка (gagarka)
• Catalan: àlcid
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 海雀科 (hǎiquèkē)

• Czech: alka (cs) f
• Dutch: alk (nl) f
• Esperanto: aŭko
• Faroese: svartfuglur m
• Finnish: ruokki (fi)
• French: pingouin (fr) m
• Galician: arao romeiro (gl) m
• German: Alk (de) m, Alkenvogel m (family: Alkenvögel)
• Hindi: अलका (hi) (alkā)
• Hungarian: alka (hu)
• Irish: falcóg f
• Italian: alca (it) f
• Japanese: 海雀 (ja) (umisuzume)
• Manx: alk m
• Marathi: अलका (alkā)
• Old Norse: alka f
• Polish: alka (pl) f
• Portuguese: torda (pt) f
• Romanian: alcă f, pinguin nordic m
• Russian: гага́рка (ru) f (gagárka)
• Slovak: alka (sk) f
• Spanish: alca (es) f
• Swedish: alka (sv) c
• Welsh: carfil m

Anagrams

• Kau

Estonian

Etymology

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

Noun

auk (genitive augu, partitive auku)

1. hole, cavity
2. pit
3. gap, opening

Declension

Declension of auk (ÕS type 22e/riik, k-g gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		auk	augud
accusative	nom.
	gen.	augu
genitive			aukude
partitive		auku	auke aukusid
illative		auku augusse	aukudesse augesse
inessive		augus	aukudes auges
elative		august	aukudest augest
allative		augule	aukudele augele
adessive		augul	aukudel augel
ablative		augult	aukudelt augelt
translative		auguks	aukudeks augeks
terminative		auguni	aukudeni
essive		auguna	aukudena
abessive		auguta	aukudeta
comitative		auguga	aukudega

Derived terms

• must auk
• auklik

Gothic

Romanization

auk

1. Romanization of 𐌰𐌿𐌺

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse auk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [øyːk]

  Rhymes: -øyːk

Preposition

auk

1. (governs the genitive) in addition to

Derived terms

• að auki, þar að auki (besides, moreover)
• auk heldur
• auk þess heldur, aukin heldur
• auk þess

Inuktitut

Noun

auk

1. Latin spelling of ᐊᐅᒃ (aok)

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

auk

1. imperative of auke

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

auk

1. 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)

1. and
2. 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^(key): /a.ˈuk/, [a.ˈok]

Noun

auk

1. 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 ?

1. snake, serpent

Yup'ik

Noun

auk

1. blood