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. ), Latin olor (“swan”), Ancient Greek ἐλέα (eléa, “marsh-bird”), Welsh alarch (“swan”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔːk/
• Homophone: awk

Noun

auk (plural auks)

1. Any of several species of Arctic sea birds of the family Alcidae.
   • 2018, Louise Tickle, The Guardian, 20 June:

     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.

   Synonym: alcid

Translations

seabird of the family Alcidae

• Bulgarian: гагарка (gagarka)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 海雀科 (hǎiquèkē)

• Czech: alka (cs) f
• Dutch: alk (nl)
• Esperanto: aŭko
• Faroese: svartfuglur m
• Finnish: ruokki (fi)
• French: pingouin (fr) m
• German: Alk (de) m, Alkenvogel m (family: Alkenvögel)
• Hungarian: alka (hu)
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• Irish: falcóg f
• Italian: alca (it) f
• Manx: alk m
• Portuguese: torda-mergulheira (pt) f
• Romanian: alcă f, pinguin nordic m
• Russian: гага́рка (ru) f (gagárka)
• Slovak: alka (sk) f
• Spanish: alca f
• Swedish: alka (sv) c
• Welsh: carfil m

Anagrams

• Kau

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Estonian

Etymology

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

Noun

auk (genitive augu, partitive auku)

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

Derived terms

• must auk
• auklik

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Gothic

Romanization

auk

1. Romanization of 𐌰𐌿𐌺

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Icelandic

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

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Inuktitut

Noun

auk

1. Latin spelling of ᐊᐅᒃ (aok)

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Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

auk

1. (deprecated template usage) imperative of auke

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

auk

1. (deprecated template usage) imperative of auka

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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: og
• Faroese: og
• Norwegian: og, òg, au
• Old Swedish: ok, och, ogh
  • Swedish: och, ock
• Elfdalian: og
• Danish: og
• Jamtish: og
• → Middle English: oc, ok
  • ⇒ Scots: okname, ockname

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Tocharian B

Etymology

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

Noun

auk ?

1. snake, serpent

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Westrobothnian

Etymology 1

From , from . Akin to English eke, Danish øge, Gothic 𐌰𐌿𐌺𐌰𐌽 (aukan), Latin augeō, Latvian augt.

Pronunciation

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Verb

1. to increase

Etymology 2

From , from .

Pronunciation

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Noun

1. draught animal

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Yup'ik

Noun

auk

1. blood