koh

See also: Koh, köh, Köh, and kʼoh

Translingual

Etymology

Clipping of English Koyo with h as a placeholder.

Symbol

koh

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Koyo.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Koyo terms

Hokkien

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

Hungarian

Etymology

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).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

koh (plural kohok)

1. (archaic) alternative form of kohó (“furnace”, a place where ore is melted to create metal)

   Synonyms: hámor, huta

Declension

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

• kohász
• kohászat

Further reading

• 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

Conjunction

koh

1. and

References

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

Yucatec Maya

Alternative forms

• koj

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkoh]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Mayan *kooh.

Alternative forms

• co (obsolete)

Noun

koh

1. tooth
2. beak

References

• 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

From Proto-Mayan *koj.

Alternative forms

• coh (obsolete)

Noun

koh

1. mountain lion (Puma concolor)

References

• 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