different between auk vs suk

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

Noun

suk (plural suks)

1. Alternative spelling of souq

Anagrams

• KSU, SKU, Usk

Catawba

Noun

suk

1. house, camp, place

Derived terms

• kus suk (“corncob”, literally “corn house”)

Descendants

• English: Sugaw Creek, Sugar Creek

References

• 1900, Albert S. Gatschet, Grammatic Sketch of the Catawba Language (published in the American Anthropologist)

Chuukese

Adjective

suk

1. open

Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *s?k?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?suk]

Noun

suk m

1. knot (in wood)

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /suk/

Etymology 1

From Arabic ???? (s?q).

Noun

suk m inan

1. souq

   Synonym: bazar

Declension

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

suk

1. genitive plural of suka

Further reading

• suk in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• suk in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Rohingya

Alternative forms

• ????????????? (suk) – Hanifi Rohingya script

Etymology

From Sanskrit ????? (cak?u). Cognate with Sylheti ??? (souk), Assamese ??? (soku), Bengali ??? (cokh)

Noun

suk (Hanifi spelling ????????????)

1. eye

Saterland Frisian

Alternative forms

• sun

Etymology

From Old Frisian suk, sulch, sullik, s?lik, from Proto-Germanic *swal?kaz. More at such.

Determiner

suk

1. such

Zazaki

Etymology

From Arabic ????? (s?q, “market”).

Noun

suk ?

1. suq, souq
2. city (large settlement)

Synonyms

• bacar