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

• 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	augu	augud
genitive	augu	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

Descendants

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

Sakizaya

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