different between ack vs auk

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /æk/

Etymology 1

Clipping of acknowledged.

Noun

ack (plural acks)

1. (military, now historical) The letter A as used in signalling and other types of communications.
   • 1929, Frederic Manning, The Middle Parts of Fortune, Vintage 2014, p. 173:

     They had to begin at the beginning: learning the Morse code, flag-wagging, a succession of acks, and practice on the buzzer.

2. (data communications) acknowledgment signal

Alternative forms

• (data communications): ACK

Antonyms

• (data communications): nack, nak

Derived terms

• ack emma
• ack-ack

Interjection

ack

1. (radio communications) acknowledged

Etymology 2

Imitative.

Interjection

ack

1. Expressing distaste, alarm, or trepidation.

Anagrams

• AKC, cak

Swedish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Swedish akh, from Middle Low German ach (“an unhappy interjection”).

Interjection

ack

1. alas, oh (exclamation of sorrow, etc.)

See also

• eja

Etymology 2

Clipping of ackumulator.

Noun

ack c

1. (electronics, slang) an electric accumulator.

Declension

Synonyms

• ackumulator

English

Alternative forms

• awk, alk

Etymology

From Icelandic álka, from Old Norse alka (“auk”), from Proto-Germanic *alk?, from Proto-Indo-European *h?el- (“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 ???? (eléa, “marsh-bird”), Welsh alarch (“swan”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??k/
• 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

Anagrams

• Kau

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

Declension

Derived terms

• must auk
• auklik

Gothic

Romanization

auk

1. Romanization of ????????????

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [øy?k]

  Rhymes: -øy?k

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 ??? (auk)

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

auk

1. imperative of auke

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

auk

1. imperative of auka and auke

Old Norse

Alternative forms

• ok

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *auk (“also”). Cognate with Old English ?ac, Old Frisian ?k, Old Saxon ?k, Old High German ouh, Gothic ???????????? (auk).

Conjunction

auk (runic script ???)

1. and

Descendants

• Icelandic: og
• Faroese: og
• Norwegian: og, òg, au
• Old Swedish: ok, och, ogh
  • Swedish: och, ock
• Elfdalian: og
• Danish: og
• Westrobothnian: åg
• Jamtish: og
• ? Middle English: oc, ok
  • ? Scots: okname, ockname

Sakizaya

Noun

auk

1. bamboo

Tocharian B

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h?óg??is. Cognate with Ancient Greek ???? (óphis) and Sanskrit ??? (ahi).

Noun

auk ?

1. snake, serpent

Westrobothnian

Etymology 1

From Old Norse auka, from Proto-Germanic *aukan?. Akin to English eke, Danish øge, Gothic ???????????????????? (aukan), Latin auge?, Latvian augt.

Pronunciation

• (Burträsk) IPA^(key): /²æ???k/
• (Luleå) IPA^(key): /²e???k/

Rhymes: -?????k

Verb

auk (preterite aukt or aukä, supine aukt or aukä)

1. (transitive) to increase

Related terms

• öukspena

Etymology 2

From Old Norse eykr, from Proto-Germanic *jaukij?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /é???k/ (example of pronunciation)

  Rhymes: -?????k

Noun

auk m

1. draught animal

References

Yup'ik

Noun

auk

1. blood