different between auk vs orc

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

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??k/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??k/
• Rhymes: -??(?)k

Etymology 1

From Middle French orque, Italian orca, and their source, Latin orca (“type of whale”).

Noun

orc (plural orcs)

1. (archaic) Any of several large, ferocious sea creatures, now especially the killer whale. [from 16th c.]

Translations

Etymology 2

Probably from Italian orco (“man-eating giant”); later revived by J. R. R. Tolkien, partly after Old English orc (“demon”); both from Latin Orcus (“the underworld; the god Pluto”). Doublet of ogre.

Noun

orc (plural orcs)

1. (fantasy, mythology) A mythical evil monstrous humanoid creature, occasionally porcine, usually quite aggressive and often green. [from 17th c.]
   • 1656, Samuel Holland, Don Zara del Fogo, I.1:

     Who at one stroke didst pare away three heads from off the shoulders of an Orke, begotten by an Incubus.

   • 1834, "The National Fairy Mythology of England" in Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, Vol. 10, p. 53:

     The chief exploit of the hero, Beowulf the Great, is the destruction of the two monsters Grendel and his mother; both like most of the evil beings in the old times, dwellers in the fens and the waters; and both, moreover, as some Christian bard has taken care to inform us, of "Cain's kin," as were also the eotens, and the elves, and the orcs (eótenas, and ylfe, and orcneas).

   • 1954, JRR Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring:

     There was a flash like flame and the helm burst asunder. The orc fell with cloven head.

Hypernyms

• greenskin

Derived terms

Descendants

All are borrowed. Some listed may be semantic loans.

Translations

See also

• ogre
• goblin
• troll

Anagrams

• COR, CRO, CoR, Cor., OCR, ROC, cor, cor-, roc

Catalan

Noun

orc m (plural orcs)

1. An orc.

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ork/, [or?k]

Etymology 1

Compare Old Saxon ork.

Noun

orc m (nominative plural orcas)

1. cup, tankard

Declension

Etymology 2

From Latin Orcus (“the underworld; the god Pluto”).

Noun

orc m

1. a demon
2. hell

Declension

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *?orkos, from Proto-Indo-European *pór?os. Cognate with Latin porcus and English farrow.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ork/

Noun

orc m

1. piglet

   Synonym: banb

Declension

Mutation

Descendants

• Irish: arc
• Manx: ark

References

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “orc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English orc.

Noun

orc m (plural orcs)

1. (fantasy) orc (evil, monstrous humanoid creature)