iku

See also: Appendix:Variations of "iku"

Translingual

Etymology

Abbreviation of English Inuktitut, from Inuktitut ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ (inoktitot).

Symbol

iku

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Inuktitut.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Inuktitut terms

Acehnese

Etymology

From Proto-Chamic *ʔiku, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ikuʀ, *ikuŋ, compare Malay ekor.

Noun

iku

1. tail (appendage of an animal)

Albanian

Verb

iku

1. third-person singular aorist indicative of iki

Bunun

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Austronesian *likud.

Noun

iku

1. back (the rear of body)

References

• “iku”, in 原住民族語言線上辭典 [Online Dictionary of Indigenous Languages]‎^[1] (in Mandarin), Taipei: 財團法人原住民族語言研究發展基金會 [Indigenous Languages Research and Development Foundation], 2014–2026

Gothic

Romanization

iku

1. romanization of 𐌹𐌺𐌿

Iban

Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *ikur, *ikuŋ (compare Brunei Malay ekong, Malay ekor, Minangkabau ikua), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ikuʀ, *ikuŋ (compare Acehnese iku, Balinese ikut, Buginese ikkoʔ), from Proto-Austronesian *ikuʀ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.kʊʔ/

Noun

iku

1. (anatomy) tail (appendage of an animal)

Classifier

iku

1. Classifier used for animals and people.

   Tiga iku mayau ― Three cats

   Dua puluh iku pengajar ― Twenty teachers

Japanese

Romanization

iku

1. Rōmaji transcription of いく

Javanese

Javanese register set
ꦏꦿꦩ (krama): punika
ꦩꦢꦾ (madya): niku
ꦔꦺꦴꦏꦺꦴ (ngoko): iku, kuwi

Alternative forms

• kuwi (dialectal)

Determiner

iku

1. that; those

Pronoun

iku (Carakan spelling ꦲꦶꦏꦸ)

1. that; those

Related terms

• iki
• ika

References

• Favre, Pierre (1870), “ꦲꦶꦏꦸ”, in Dictionnaire javanais-français‎^[2] (in French), Paris: Imprimerie Impériale et Royale, page 125

Kanakanabu

Etymology

From Proto-Austronesian *(i-)aku.

Pronoun

iku

1. I (personal pronoun)

Paiwan

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Austronesian *ikuʀ.

Noun

iku

1. tail

References

• “iku”, in 原住民族語言線上辭典 [Online Dictionary of Indigenous Languages]‎^[3] (in Mandarin), Taipei: 財團法人原住民族語言研究發展基金會 [Indigenous Languages Research and Development Foundation], 2014–2026

Yilan Creole

Etymology

From Japanese 行く (iku, “to go”).

Verb

iku (realis negative ikanay, irrealis negative ikang)

1. to go

   anta doko iku?

   Where are you going?

   tayhoku iku no cyoli

   people who will go to Taipei

Related terms

• tike, tikang

References

• Chien Yuehchen; Shinji Sanada (2011), “台湾の宜蘭クレオールにおける否定辞―「ナイ」と「ン」の変容をめぐって― [Negation in Taiwan’s Yilan Creole: Focusing on -nay and -ng]”, in 言語研究 [Gengo Kenkyu]‎^[4], number 140, pages 73-87
• 真田信治 [Shinji Sanada] (2015), “宜蘭クレオールにおけるsound substitutionについて [On the sound substitution of Yilan Creole]”, in 奈良大学紀要 [Memoirs of Nara University]‎^[5] (in Japanese), number 43
• Chien Yuehchen (2023), “Yilan Creole”, in Handbook of Formosan Languages Online: The Indigenous Languages of Taiwan‎^[6], number 44, →ISSN

Yoruba

Alternative forms

• ukú

Etymology

i- (“non-gerundive nominalizer”) +‎ kú (“to die”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ī.kú/

Noun

ikú

1. death

   Synonyms: ìwàjà, ìtẹrígbaṣọ, ìpapòdà (euphemisms)

Derived terms

• ọjọ́ ikú (“time of death”)
• Ikú (“the personification of death”)

Yosondúa Mixtec

Etymology

From Proto-Mixtec *íkú.

Adverb

iku

1. yesterday

Derived terms

• iku ñuu
• jakuaa iku

References

• Beaty de Farris, Kathryn; et al. (2012), Diccionario básico del mixteco de Yosondúa, Oaxaca (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 46)‎^[7] (in Spanish), third edition, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 10