juk

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See also: Juk, -juk, and -jük

English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Cantonese 粥 (juk1) or Korean 죽 (juk).

Noun[edit]

juk (uncountable)

  1. Congee.

Quotations[edit]

For quotations using this term, see Citations:juk.

Synonyms[edit]

Afrikaans[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Dutch juk.

Noun[edit]

juk (plural jukke)

  1. yoke

Derived terms[edit]

Dutch[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle Dutch joc, juc, from Old Dutch *juk, from Proto-Germanic *juką, from Proto-Indo-European *yugóm. Compare German Joch, West Frisian jok, English yoke, Danish åg, Swedish ok.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • Rhymes: -ʏk
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Noun[edit]

juk n (plural jukken, diminutive jukje n)

  1. a yoke
  2. a burden; something which represses or restrains a person.

Descendants[edit]

  • Negerhollands: jok

Gothic[edit]

Romanization[edit]

juk

  1. Romanization of 𐌾𐌿𐌺

Lithuanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Compare Latvian juk. According to Ostrowski, from conflation of juõ (“especially”) +‎ kaĩ (“when”).

Particle[edit]

jùk

  1. Emphatic particle; after all

Further reading[edit]

  • “juk”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2023
  • Vytautas Ambrazas (2006) Lithuanian Grammar, 2nd revised edition, pages 401–402
  • Norbert Ostrowski (2015), “The Origin of the Lithuanian Particle »jùk«”, in Artūras Judžentis & Stephan Kessler, editor, Contributions to Morphology and Syntax. Proceedings of the 4th Greifswald University Conference on Baltic Languages‎[1], pages 201–215

Middle Low German[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Pronoun[edit]

jük

  1. (personal pronoun, dative, accusative) Alternative form of jû.

Quechua[edit]

Quechua cardinal numbers
 <  0 1 2  > 
    Cardinal : juk
    Ordinal : hukñiqi

Alternative forms[edit]

Numeral[edit]

juk

  1. one

Semai[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Aslian *ɟuŋ (“leg, foot”), from Proto-Mon-Khmer *ɟuŋ ~ *ɟuəŋ ~ *ɟəŋ (“leg, foot”). Cognate with Khmer ជើង (cəəng), Bahnar jơ̆ng, Mon ဇိုၚ် and Vietnamese chân. Munda cognates include Santali ᱡᱟᱝᱜᱟ (jaṅga).

Noun[edit]

juk[1]

  1. (Anatomy) leg

References[edit]

  1. ^ Basrim bin Ngah Aching (2008) Kamus Engròq Semay – Engròq Malaysia, Kamus Bahasa Semai – Bahasa Malaysia, Bangi: Institut Alam dan Tamadun Melayu, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

Volapük[edit]

Noun[edit]

juk (nominative plural juks)

  1. shoe

Declension[edit]

declension of juk
singular plural
nominative juk juks
genitive juka jukas
dative juke jukes
accusative juki jukis
vocative 1 o juk! o juks!
predicative 2 juku jukus
  • 1 status as a case is disputed
  • 2 in later, non-classical Volapük only

Derived terms[edit]

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