aka

Clipping of English Akan.

aka

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

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Akan terms

Maori [Term?]

aka

1. The New Zealand vine Metrosideros fulgens.

aka

1. Alternative letter-case form of AKA.
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• aak

• IPA^(key): /aka/

aka

1. to let, to allow

• SIL International (2020) “Abau Dictionary”, in Webonary.org‎^[3]

• (Cholula): aca
• (Texcoco): akah

aka

1. someone, somebody.

aka

1. reed, cane.

From Old Norse aka (“to move, to drive”), from Proto-Germanic *akaną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-. Cognates include Latin agō (“I drive”), Ancient Greek ἄγω (ágō, “to lead”) and Sanskrit अजति (ajati, “to drive, propel, cast”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛaːʰka/
• Rhymes: -ɛaːʰka

aka (third person singular past indicative ók, third person plural past indicative óku, supine ikið)

1. to drive

• aka'

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *aka (“elder sibling”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈʔakaʔ/ [ˈʔa.kɐʔ]
• Rhymes: -akaʔ
• Syllabification: a‧ka

akà (Hanunoo spelling ᜠᜣ)

1. older sibling

   Synonym: kaka

• Conklin, Harold C. (1953) Hanunóo-English Vocabulary (University of California Publications in Linguistics), volume 9, London, England: University of California Press, →OCLC, page 23
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*aka”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

From Proto-Polynesian *ata. Cognates include Maori ata, Samoan ata, and Tokelauan ata.

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.ka/, [ˈɐ.kə]

aka

1. (stative) to appear bright

aka

1. shadow

• IPA^(key): /akaʔ/
• Hyphenation: a‧ka

aka

1. older brother

From Old Norse aka (“to move, to drive”), from Proto-Germanic *akaną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-. Cognates include Latin agō (“I drive”), Ancient Greek ἄγω (ágō, “to lead”) and Sanskrit अजति (ajati, “to drive, propel, cast”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈaːka/
• Rhymes: -aːka

aka (strong verb, third-person singular past indicative ók, third-person plural past indicative óku, supine ekið)

1. to drive [intransitive or with dative ‘a vehicle’]

   Synonym: keyra

   Aki maður gegn rauðu ljósi má hann eiga von á sekt.

   If a man drives against (i.e. past) a red light, he may expect a fine.

   Að aka bifreið er harla ólíkt því að aka hestvagni.

   Driving a motorcar is very different from driving a horse-drawn carriage.

2. to move slightly, to budge

• aka sér (“to squirm, to writhe”)
• aka framhjá (“to drive by, to drive past”)

aka

1. Rōmaji transcription of あか
2. Rōmaji transcription of アカ

• IPA^(key): /aka/

aka (infinitive gwaka)

1. to build

(Nouns)

• mwaki class 1

(Proverbs)

• mũrurĩ ndwakaga

• IPA^(key): /àkǎ/

aka class 2

1. plural of mũka

• Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu, p. 360. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).

From Proto-Baltic *ak- (with an extra -ā), from Proto-Indo-European *okʷ-, from *h₃okʷ-, *h₃ekʷ- “eye”, whence also Latvian acs “eye”, (q.v.); in fact, aka is, historically speaking, a variant of acs. The semantic relation goes clearly via the similarity of a hole (from which one obtains water) to an eye. Initially probably used for “ice-hole” (like its Lithuanian cognate), and later “well.” Cognates (in addition to those listed under acs) include Lithuanian akà, ãkas (“ice-hole”), Old Church Slavonic око (oko, “eye”) (gen. очесе (očese)), Russian poetic о́ко (óko), Bulgarian око́ (okó), Czech, Polish oko, Ancient Greek ὀπή (opḗ, “hole, opening, cave; visiion”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈakːa]

• Audio:

  (file)

aka f (4th declension)

1. well (a hole in the ground, from which water can be obtained)

   artēziskā aka ― artesian well

   drenāžas aka ― drain well

   akas ūdens ― well water

   akas vinda ― well winch

   akas grodi ― well curb

   rakt aku ― to dig a well

   iet uz aku pēc ūdens ― to go to a well for (= to get) water

   tumšs kā akā ― as dark as in a well (= very dark)

   Līču pagalmā ir... dziļa un stipriem grodiem izbūvēta aka ― in the backyard of the Līcis (family)... there is a deep well, built with a strong curb

aka

1. then

aka

1. canoe

• Greg Pearson, René van den Berg, Lote Grammar Sketch (2008)

From Proto-Polynesian *aka (compare with Hawaiian aʻa), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wakaʀ (compare with Malay akar).

aka

1. root (of plant)

• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*wakaR”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

• ake (e-infinitive)

From Old Norse aka, from Proto-Germanic *akaną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti, from the root *h₂eǵ- (“to drive”). Doublet of åka.

• IPA^(key): /²aː.ka/, /²a.ka/

aka (present tense ek or akar, past tense ok or aka, supine eke or aka, past participle eken or aka, present participle akande, imperative ak)

1. to glide, slide slowly
2. to glide on a sledge

• “aka” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-Germanic *aukaną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewg-. Cognate with Old English ēacan, Old Saxon ōkian, Old Norse auka, Gothic 𐌰𐌿𐌺𐌰𐌽 (aukan), Latin augeō, and Ancient Greek αὐξάνω (auxánō).

āka

1. to increase, enlarge

From Proto-Germanic *akaną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-. Cognates include Latin agō (“I drive”), Ancient Greek ἄγω (ágō, “to lead”) and Sanskrit अजति (ajati, “to drive, propel, cast”).

• Hyphenation: ak‧a

aka (singular past indicative ók, plural past indicative óku, past participle ekinn)

1. to drive (e.g. a cart)

• Icelandic: aka
• Faroese: aka
• Norwegian:
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: aka, ake
  • Norwegian Bokmål: ake, åke
• Dalian:
  • Elfdalian: åka
• Old Swedish: aka
  • Swedish: åka
• Scanian: aga
• Old Danish: akæ
  • Danish: age
• Gutnish: ake
• → Scots: oag, hoag; aik
• → English: aik (Northern England, Scotland, rare)

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “aka”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

• ᛆᚴᛆ

From Old Norse aka (“to move, to drive”), from Proto-Germanic *akaną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-. Cognates include Latin agō (“I drive”), Ancient Greek ἄγω (ágō, “to lead”) and Sanskrit अजति (ajati, “to drive, propel, cast”).

aka

1. to drive

• Swedish: åka

aka

1. reed

Borrowed from English AKA.

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.ka/
• Rhymes: -aka
• Syllabification: a‧ka

aka

1. (with pseudonyms) AKA, alias

   Synonyms: alias, vel

• aka in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• aka in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From Proto-Polynesian *aka, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wakaʀ.

aka

1. root (of plant)

• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*wakaR”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

aka

1. feces, excrement

• akay

From Proto-Eastern Polynesian *aka. Cognates include Hawaiian aʻa and Maori aka.

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.ka/
• Hyphenation: a‧ka

aka

1. root (of plant)

• Veronica Du Feu (1996) Rapanui (Descriptive Grammars), Routledge, →ISBN, page 206

aka

1. shore

• Harrison, Roy, B. de Harrison, Margaret, López Juárez, Francisco, Ordoñes, Cosme (1984) Vocabulario zoque de Rayón (Serie de diccionarios y vocabularios indígenas Mariano Silva y Aceves; 28)‎^[4] (in Spanish), México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 3

• IPA^(key): /aka/, [a̠ka̠], [ɑ̟kɑ̟]

Borrowed from Dutch haak.

aka

1. hook

From English hawk.

aka

1. medium to large bird of prey; hawk, eagle, etc.

Inherited from Proto-Bantu [Term?].

• Audio (Kenya):

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-aka (infinitive kuaka)

1. to build
2. to fence

Conjugation of -aka
Positive present -naaka Subjunctive -ake Negative -aki Imperative singular aka
Infinitives
Positive kuaka Negative kutoaka
Imperatives
Singular aka Plural akeni
Tensed forms
Habitual huaka Positive past positive subject concord + -liaka Negative past negative subject concord + -kuaka
Positive present (positive subject concord + -naaka) Singular Plural 1st person ninaaka/naaka tunaaka 2nd person unaaka mnaaka 3rd person m-wa(I/II) anaaka wanaaka other classes positive subject concord + -naaka
Negative present (negative subject concord + -aki) Singular Plural 1st person siaki hatuaki 2nd person huaki hamwaki 3rd person m-wa(I/II) haaki hawaaki other classes negative subject concord + -aki
Positive future positive subject concord + -taaka Negative future negative subject concord + -taaka
Positive subjunctive (positive subject concord + -ake) Singular Plural 1st person niake tuake 2nd person uake mwake 3rd person m-wa(I/II) aake waake other classes positive subject concord + -ake
Negative subjunctive positive subject concord + -siake Positive present conditional positive subject concord + -ngeaka Negative present conditional positive subject concord + -singeaka Positive past conditional positive subject concord + -ngaliaka Negative past conditional positive subject concord + -singaliaka
Gnomic (positive subject concord + -aaka) Singular Plural 1st person naaka twaaka 2nd person waaka mwaaka 3rd person m-wa(I/II) aaka waaka m-mi(III/IV) waaka yaaka ji-ma(V/VI) laaka yaaka ki-vi(VII/VIII) chaaka vyaaka n(IX/X) yaaka zaaka u(XI) waaka see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) kwaaka pa(XVI) paaka mu(XVIII) mwaaka
Perfect positive subject concord + -meaka "Already" positive subject concord + -meshaaka "Not yet" negative subject concord + -jaaka "If/When" positive subject concord + -kiaka "If not" positive subject concord + -sipoaka Consecutive kaaka / positive subject concord + -kaaka Consecutive subjunctive positive subject concord + -kaake
Object concord (indicative positive) Singular Plural 1st person -niaka -tuaka 2nd person -kuaka -waaka/-kuakeni/-waakeni 3rd person m-wa(I/II) -mwaka -waaka m-mi(III/IV) -uaka -iaka ji-ma(V/VI) -liaka -yaaka ki-vi(VII/VIII) -kiaka -viaka n(IX/X) -iaka -ziaka u(XI) -uaka see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) -kuaka pa(XVI) -paaka mu(XVIII) -muaka Reflexive -jiaka
Relative forms General positive (positive subject concord + (object concord) + -aka- + relative marker) Singular Plural m-wa(I/II) -akaye -akao m-mi(III/IV) -akao -akayo ji-ma(V/VI) -akalo -akayo ki-vi(VII/VIII) -akacho -akavyo n(IX/X) -akayo -akazo u(XI) -akao see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) -akako pa(XVI) -akapo mu(XVIII) -akamo Other forms (subject concord + tense marker + relative marker + (object concord) + -aka) Singular Plural m-wa(I/II) -yeaka -oaka m-mi(III/IV) -oaka -yoaka ji-ma(V/VI) -loaka -yoaka ki-vi(VII/VIII) -choaka -vyoaka n(IX/X) -yoaka -zoaka u(XI) -oaka see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) -koaka pa(XVI) -poaka mu(XVIII) -moaka
Some forms not commonly seen in modern Standard Swahili are absent from the table. See Appendix:Swahili verbs for more information.

• Nominal derivations:
  • mwashi (“mason”)

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ʔaˈka/ [ʔɐˈxa]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: a‧ka

aká (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜃ) (obsolete)

1. alternative form of aha

• “aka”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

aka

1. older brother or older sister.

• IPA^(key): [ˈa.ka]

aka

1. (transitive) to toss, throw

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

• IPA^(key): [ˈa.ka]
• Hyphenation: a‧ka

From Proto-Polynesian *aka. Cognates include Hawaiian aʻa and Samoan a'a.

aka

1. root

From Proto-Polynesian *qaka. Cognates include Tuvaluan aka and Samoan a'a.

aka

1. heel
2. kick

aka (plural taaka)

1. (intransitive) to kick
2. (transitive) to kick
3. (transitive) to back-heel
4. (transitive, weaving) to weave (a skirt) by holding the weaving string on the foot

• R. Simona, editor (1986), Tokelau Dictionary‎^[5], Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 9

From Proto-Polynesian *aka, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wakaʀ.

• IPA^(key): /a.ka/

aka

1. root (of plant)
2. East Asian arrowroot (Pueraria montana var. lobata) ^[1]

• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*wakaR”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

aka

1. grandmother

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Cognate with Zulu -akha.

-aka

1. to build, to construct, to erect
2. to inhabit
3. to be ingrained

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

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aka

1. dative singular of ak

• ogʻa

Inherited from Chagatai اکا (aka), from Proto-Turkic *āka (“(older) brother”). Compare Uyghur ئاكا (aka), Southern Altai ака (aka), Yakut аҕа (ağa), Tatar агай (ağay), Bashkir ағай (ağay), Kazakh әке (äke), аға (ağa), ағай (ağai), Kyrgyz ага (aga), Turkmen aga, Azerbaijani ağa, Turkish ağa.

• IPA^(key): /a.ka/, [æ.k̟æ]
• Hyphenation: a‧ka

aka (plural akalar)

1. older brother

• ogʻayni (“friend”)
• uka (“younger brother”)

• → Tajik: ака (aka, “older brother”)

• IPA^(key): /aˈka/

aka

1. ow, ouch (expressing pain, especially sharp pain, or pain at being struck)

   Aka! Tyenho hokota natu.

   Ouch! The knife cut me.

   Aka! Kaupai nutanaka!

   Ow! My back hurts!

   Aka! Ata onuka natu!

   Ouch! That branch hit me.

   Mainyataitsawi. Aka! Aka! Aka! umawi.

   They struck [him] repeatedly. Ow! Ow! Ow! [he] said.

2. oh, oops (expressing startlement, embarrassment, surprise, or shock)

   Aka! Takata nuutsa.

   Oops! I dropped it.

   (literally, “[it] simply fell from me.”)

3. oh, aah (expressing alarm, fright, shock or grief)

   Aka! Pityahoma! Talukene minya aitsu!

   Aah! Run fast, [or] they'll bite us!
   [Said when village dogs were chasing us.]

   Aka! Aminya!

   Oh! Don't [do that]! (Watch out!)

• E. Ireland field notes. Need to be checked by native speaker.

• a'ka (Cunucunuma River dialect)

From Proto-Cariban *jaka. Synchronically as if suffixed with -ka (“to, at”). Compare Apalaí aka, Hixkaryana yaka, Macushi yapî', and Waiwai yaka.

• IPA^(key): [aka]

aka

1. (Caura River dialect and Brazil) at, in, on, to; indicates a specific location or goal at a non-aquatic object of class 1

A possessed noun that is the object of this postposition does not take the possessed suffix -dü. The postposition can thus combine with nouns referring to body parts and parts of objects to form more complex postpositions/relational nouns.

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “aka”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[6], Lyon, pages 267–272
• Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Silva, Marcelo Costa da, Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021) “aka”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana‎^[7], Museu do Índio/FUNAI
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 296: “a'ka 'in, at'”
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “aʔka”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[8], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

aka

1. water
2. river

• R. J. Hayward, Omotic Language Studies →ISBN, 2012), page 116
• The Sound of Indo-european: Phonetics, Phonemics →ISBN, 2012), page 8: Omotic: (North) Yemsa aka id. (Appleyard 2006, 144)

Proposed to be derived from Proto-Yoruboid *á-ká. Cognate with Igbo aka (“arm/hand”), Nupe ekpá (“shoulder”), Olukumi áká (“shoulder, wing”), Igala íká (“wing”), Itsekiri iká, possibly a Doublet of èjìká. The root is reconstructed to Proto-Niger-Congo *-ka (“hand”), where it is believed to have held the meaning "five." See Defaka ápá as well

• IPA^(key): /ā.ká/

aká

1. (Owe, Ekiti, Ondo) arm, branch

   Synonym: apá

• Yoruba: ọ̀gụ̀nrụ̀nká (“shoulder”)

• IPA^(key): /ā.kā/

aká

1. The plant Cynometra mannii in the genus Cynometra

• IPA^(key): /ā.ká/

aká

1. a crippled person

   Synonyms: amúkùn-ún, arọ, ẹlẹ́gbà

• IPA^(key): /à.ká/

àká

1. a storage for farm produce, barn, root cellar

   Synonyms: abà, ahéré

• àká-ọ̀rọ̀ (“lexicon”)

aka

1. so