koh

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See also: Koh, köh, and Köh

Hokkien[edit]

For pronunciation and definitions of koh – see (“again”).
(This term is the pe̍h-ōe-jī form of ).

Hungarian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Uncertain. Perhaps a borrowing from Middle High German kuche (though this explanation has semantic issues), or possibly a back-formation from kohol (to fabricate, trump up) (though the opposite direction, koh + -ol, might be more likely).[1][2]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): [ˈkox]
  • Hyphenation: koh
  • Rhymes: -ox

Noun[edit]

koh (plural kohok)

  1. (archaic) Alternative form of kohó (furnace, a place where ore is melted to create metal)
    Synonyms: hámor, huta

Declension[edit]

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative koh kohok
accusative kohot kohokat
dative kohnak kohoknak
instrumental kohhal kohokkal
causal-final kohért kohokért
translative kohhá kohokká
terminative kohig kohokig
essive-formal kohként kohokként
essive-modal
inessive kohban kohokban
superessive kohon kohokon
adessive kohnál kohoknál
illative kohba kohokba
sublative kohra kohokra
allative kohhoz kohokhoz
elative kohból kohokból
delative kohról kohokról
ablative kohtól kohoktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular
kohé kohoké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
kohéi kohokéi
Possessive forms of koh
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. kohom kohjaim
2nd person sing. kohod kohjaid
3rd person sing. kohja kohjai
1st person plural kohunk kohjaink
2nd person plural kohotok kohjaitok
3rd person plural kohjuk kohjaik

Derived terms[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ koh in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN.  (See also its 2nd edition.)
  2. ^ kohó in Tótfalusi, István. Magyar etimológiai nagyszótár (’Hungarian Comprehensive Dictionary of Etymology’). Budapest: Arcanum Adatbázis, 2001; Arcanum DVD Könyvtár →ISBN

Further reading[edit]

  • koh in Czuczor, Gergely and János Fogarasi: A magyar nyelv szótára (’A Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Pest: Emich Gusztáv Magyar Akadémiai Nyomdász, 1862–1874.

Seneca[edit]

Conjunction[edit]

koh

  1. and

References[edit]

  • Wallace Chafe (2014) A Grammar of the Seneca Language, University of California Press, page 149

Yucatec Maya[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Proto-Mayan *kooh.

Alternative forms[edit]

  • co (obsolete)

Noun[edit]

koh

  1. tooth
  2. beak

References[edit]

  • Beltrán de Santa Rosa María, Pedro (1746) Arte de el idioma maya reducido a succintas reglas, y semilexicon yucateco (in Spanish), Mexico: Por la Biuda de D. Joseph Bernardo de Hogal, page 165: “Co. sssssssssssss Diente.”
  • Montgomery, John (2004) Maya-English, English-Maya (Yucatec) Dictionary & Phrasebook, New York: Hippocrene Books, Inc., →ISBN, page 62

Etymology 2[edit]

From Proto-Mayan *kOj.

Alternative forms[edit]

Noun[edit]

koh

  1. mountain lion (Puma concolor)

References[edit]

  • Beltrán de Santa Rosa María, Pedro (1746) Arte de el idioma maya reducido a succintas reglas, y semilexicon yucateco (in Spanish), Mexico: Por la Biuda de D. Joseph Bernardo de Hogal, page 176: “Leon, y Leoparde. Coh, chaccbo ay
  • Montgomery, John (2004) Maya-English, English-Maya (Yucatec) Dictionary & Phrasebook, New York: Hippocrene Books, Inc., →ISBN, page 62