vuku

See also: Vuku and vʉkʉ

Jamtish

Alternative forms

•  viku

Etymology

From Old Norse viku, accusative of vika, from Proto-Germanic *wikǭ.

Pronunciation

• (Western dialects) IPA^(key): [²ʋɵˑkʉ]
• (Central dialects) IPA^(key): [²ʋɔːkɔ]
• (Hackås, Oviken) IPA^(key): [²ʋɔkːɵ]

Noun

vuku f

1. week

Declension

  Declension of vuku (weak short ōn-stem)

feminine	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	vuku	vuku	vukur	vukun
dative	vuku	vukunn	vuku	vukum
compound-genitive	vuku	―	vuku	―
vocative	vuku	―	vuker	―

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• vukku (Trøndelag)

Etymology 1

Metaphony of another form, viku, originally also the oblique singular form of Old Norse vika (“week”), a shared development with Jamtish vuku. A similar metaphony seems to have taken place with Old English wucu. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *wikǭ, cognate with English week.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [²ʋʉˑ.kʉ], [²ʋɵˑ.kʉ], [²ʋɵˑ.kɵ]
• (Trøndelag) IPA^(key): [²ʋʉk.kʉ]
• (Selbu) IPA^(key): [²ʋʉˑ.kʉ], def. IPA^(key): [²ʋu̞ˑ.kũ̞]
• Note: The vowels are short or half-long in all the declensions.
• Homophone: Vuku

Noun

vuku f

1. (dialectal, Trøndelag, Østerdalsmål, Central Gudbrandsdal) alternative form of veke f (“week”)

Declension

  Selbu declension of vuku (weak short ōn-stem)

feminine	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	vuku	vokõ, vuku	vuku, vukui	vukunn, vukuinn
dative	―	vukunn	―	vukuåm

  Sparbu declension of vuku (weak short ōn-stem)

feminine	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	vuku	vuku	vukua	vukuan
dative	―	vukun	―	vukuåm

  Skogn declension of vuku (weak short ōn-stem)

feminine	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	vuku	vukû	vukua	vukûn
dative	―	vukûn	―	―

Etymology 2

Metaphony of another form, vòku, from Old Norse vǫku, oblique cases singular of vaka.

Noun

vuku f (definite singular vuko, indefinite plural vukur, definite plural vukune)

1. (Midlandsnormalen) (pre-1917) alternative form of voke

Anagrams

• Vuku

Rotokas

Etymology 1

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Adjective

vuku

1. full (stomach)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Tok Pisin buk, from English book, from Middle English bok, from Old English bōc, from Proto-Germanic *bōks, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂ǵos.

Noun

vuku

1. book

Derived terms

• tugoropa vuku

References

• Firchow, Irwin, Firchow, Jacqueline, Akoitai, David (1973) Vocabulary of Rotokas - Pidgin - English‎^[1], Ukarumpa: Summer Institute of Linguistics, page 160

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

vuku

1. dative/locative singular of vuk

Verb

vuku (Cyrillic spelling вуку)

1. third-person plural present indicative of vući

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish وقوع (vuku, “event; fall”), from Arabic وُقُوع (wuqūʕ), verbal noun of وَقَعَ (waqaʕa).

Noun

vuku (definite accusative vukuu, plural vukular)

1. event, occurrence

   vuku bulmak ― to happen

References

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “وقوع”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1314
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “vuku”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN