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kakukk

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Hungarian

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 kakukk on Hungarian Wikipedia

Etymology

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An onomatopoeia.[1] First attested in 1335.[2]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈkɒkukː]
  • Rhymes: -ukː
  • Hyphenation: ka‧kukk

Noun

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kakukk (plural kakukkok)

  1. cuckoo, common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus)
  2. cuckoo (the sound of that particular bird, also spelled kukukk)

Declension

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Possessive forms of kakukk
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. kakukkom kakukkjaim
2nd person sing. kakukkod kakukkjaid
3rd person sing. kakukkja kakukkjai
1st person plural kakukkunk kakukkjaink
2nd person plural kakukkotok kakukkjaitok
3rd person plural kakukkjuk kakukkjaik

Derived terms

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Expressions

References

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  1. ^ kakukk 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. ^ kakukk in Károly Gerstner, editor, Új magyar etimológiai szótár [New Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian] (ÚESz.), Online edition (beta version), Budapest: MTA Research Institute for Linguistics / Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, 2011–2025.

Further reading

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  • kakukk in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.