aku

aku

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Akum.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Akum terms

From a (“house”) +‎ ku (“side”).

• IPA^(key): /aku/

aku class II gender m

1. side of a house

• SIL International (2020) “Abau Dictionary”, in Webonary.org‎^[2]

From Proto-Malayic *aku, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *aku, from Proto-Austronesian *aku.

aku

1. I, me (first person singular pronoun)
2. (when placed after a noun) my (first person singular possessive pronoun)

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

• daku

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *aku.

• IPA^(key): /ˈaku/

aku

1. I (personal pronoun)

• Adul, M. Asfandi (1985) “aku”, in Struktur Bahasa Bulungan‎^[3], Jakarta: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa

From Proto-Philippine *ʔakúʔ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(i-)aku, from Proto-Austronesian *(i-)aku.

aku

1. I (personal pronoun)

A reduction of akumulaator, ultimately from Latin accumulātor.

aku (genitive aku, partitive akut)

1. battery, cell, accumulator

Declension of aku (ÕS type 16/pere, no gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		aku	akud
accusative	nom.
	gen.	aku
genitive			akude
partitive		akut	akusid
illative		akku akusse	akudesse
inessive		akus	akudes
elative		akust	akudest
allative		akule	akudele
adessive		akul	akudel
ablative		akult	akudelt
translative		akuks	akudeks
terminative		akuni	akudeni
essive		akuna	akudena
abessive		akuta	akudeta
comitative		akuga	akudega

From Proto-Inuit *aku- (“interval, to mix”), from Proto-Eskimo *akuv- (“between, to mix”). Compare akunneq (“interval”) and akulaaq (“crotch”).

• (Nuuk) IPA^(key): /aku/, [a.kʊ]

aku (plural akut)

1. ingredient
2. estuary, mouth of a river

• “aku“ in iserasuaat.gl

• aku in Katersat
• aku in Katersat

aku

1. hot

• IPA^(key): /ʔaku/

aku

1. what kind?, which?

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.ku/, [ˈɐ.ku]

From Proto-Polynesian *qatu (compare with Maori atu, Rarotongan atu, Tongan ʻatu, Samoan atu)^[1] from Proto-Oceanic *qatun (compare with Fijian yatu).^[2]

aku

1. bonito, skipjack tuna (Katsuwonus pelamis)

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

aku

1. direction away from the speaker, away
2. soon, later, earlier, last (week, year, etc.)

• Mai and aku may change the meaning of the verb:

  aʻo mai (“to learn”) — aʻo aku (“to teach”)

  kūʻai mai (“to buy”) — kūʻai aku (“to sell”)

• akula

• mai, maila

From Proto-Malayic *aku, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *aku, from Proto-Austronesian *aku.

aku

1. I, me (first person singular pronoun)
2. (when placed after a noun) my (first person singular possessive pronoun)

• Adelaar, K. A. (1992) Proto-Malayic: The reconstruction of its phonology and parts of its lexicon and morphology‎^[4], Canberra: The Australian National University
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*aku”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈaku/ [ˈa.ku]

• Audio:

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• Syllabification: a‧ku

Inherited from Malay aku, from Proto-Malayic *aku, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *aku, from Proto-Austronesian *aku.

aku

1. (casual or informal) first person singular pronoun: I, me, my

   Synonyms: (informal, Jakarta) gua; (polite) saya; (poetic) hamba

   Pagi ini aku makan ikan.

   This morning I ate fish.

   Dia mengajak aku berjalan-jalan di taman.

   He invited me to take a walk in the park.

   Kucing aku sedang tidur.

   My cat is sleeping.

• akoe (1901–1947)
• daku (poetic)
• -ku, ku-

aku (uncountable)

1. syllabic abbreviation of anggaran dan keuangan (“budgeting and finance”)

Borrowed from Javanese [Term?].

aku (plural aku-aku)

1. (dialect) pomegranate flower

• “aku” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

aku

1. Rōmaji transcription of あく

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ikuR, from Proto-Austronesian *ikuR.

aku (classifier ƀĕ)

1. tail

aku

1. romanization of ꦲꦏꦸ

äḳu

1. water

• Merritt Ruhlen, The Origin of Language: Tracing the Evolution of the Mother Tongue (1996, →ISBN

• yaku
• iaku
• i aku
• ako
• yako

From Proto-Philippine *ʔakúʔ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *aku, from Proto-Austronesian *aku.

• IPA^(key): /ˈaku/ [ˈäː.xu]
• Hyphenation: a‧ku

áku

1. I (personal pronoun)
2. me (direct object of a verb)
3. me (object of a preposition)
4. me (indirect object of a verb)
5. my (belonging to me)

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *aku, from Proto-Austronesian *aku.

aku

1. I, me (first person singular pronoun)
2. (when placed after a noun) my (first person singular possessive pronoun)

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

aku f

1. inflection of aka:
   1. accusative/instrumental singular
   2. genitive plural

• daku (poetic)
• ak, aque, aq (text messaging, Internet slang)

Inherited from Proto-Malayic *aku, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *aku, from Proto-Austronesian *aku.

First attested in the Telaga Batu inscription, 683 AD, as Old Malay [script needed] (aku).

• IPA^(key): /ˈaku/ [ˈa.ku]

  • Audio (Malaysia):

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  • Audio (Malaysia):

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• Rhymes: -aku, -ku, -u
• Hyphenation: a‧ku

aku (Jawi spelling اکو)

1. (informal) First person singular pronoun; I, me.

   Synonym: saya (polite)

   Aku tengah makan.

   I am eating.

• This pronoun is generally only used with people of the same or a similar age group such as one's classmates.
• If used with someone of a socially higher position such an older person or a superior, it would be considered very disrespectful.

• > Indonesian: aku (inherited)

• Adelaar, K. A. (1992) Proto-Malayic: The reconstruction of its phonology and parts of its lexicon and morphology‎^[5], Canberra: The Australian National University
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*aku”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

• “aku” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

From Proto-Eastern Polynesian *au, from Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *au, from Proto-Polynesian *au, from Proto-Oceanic *au, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *aku, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *aku, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *aku, from Proto-Austronesian *aku.
Cognate with Indonesian aku, Malagasy aho, Tagalog ako.

aku

1. my (when talking of more than one thing)

   Ko aku tīpuna ērā. ― Those are my grandparents.

A possessive determiner which must be followed by a noun, unlike āku and ōku. This is the neutral or informal form and is not governed by the a and o categories. It cannot be stressed, in which case either āku or ōku must be used, depending on the category of the noun.

• “aku” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

aku

1. (to be) hot

• IPA^(key): [āku᷇]

aku

1. forest

• Lena Björkestedt, A Phonological Sketch of the Mmen Language (2010)

From Proto-Bungku-Tolaki *ku, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *aku, from Proto-Austronesian *aku.

aku

1. I (personal pronoun)
2. me (direct object of a verb)
3. me (object of a preposition)
4. me (indirect object of a verb)
5. my (belonging to me)

• iβaku

From Proto-Bungku-Tolaki *aku, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *aku, from Proto-Austronesian *aku.

aku

1. I (personal pronoun)
2. me (direct object of a verb)
3. me (object of a preposition)
4. me (indirect object of a verb)
5. my (belonging to me)

• ku

From Proto-Malayic *aku, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *aku, from Proto-Austronesian *aku.

• IPA^(key): /aku/

• Audio (Palembang):

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aku

1. I, me (first person singular pronoun)

   Aku nandang kumanyé kûyûng. (Sekayu) ― I visited my brother's house.

2. (when placed after a noun) my (first person singular possessive pronoun)

   Emé' aku la nyawîske kuî segelo'. (Palembang) ― My mother has prepared a jar of cookies.

• Adelaar, K. A. (1992) Proto-Malayic: The reconstruction of its phonology and parts of its lexicon and morphology‎^[6], Canberra: The Australian National University
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*aku”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

From Proto-Chadic *wk-/*kw- (“goat”). Cognate with Karekare àuyàku, Uldeme awak, Miya nkwak, Ngamo aku, Bura aki.

àkū (plural gàrau)

1. goat

From Hausa aku.

• IPA^(key): /à.kú/

àkú (plural àkúzhì)

1. African gray parrot (Psittacus erithacus)

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *aku, from Proto-Austronesian *aku.

aku

1. I, me (first person singular pronoun)
2. (when placed after a noun) my (first person singular possessive pronoun)

• Javanese: ꦲꦏꦸ (aku)

• "aku" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

• haku (Ayacucho) ("flour")
• hak'u (Cuzco-Collao) ("flour")

Inherited from Proto-Quechuan *aku.

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.kʊ/

aku

1. flour, a milled cereal

   Synonyms: hak'u (Cuzco-Collao), haku (Ayacucho)

2. (Cuzco) chewed coca
3. (Collao) resting time after chewing coca

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *aku, from Proto-Austronesian *aku.

aku

1. I, me (first person singular pronoun)
2. (when placed after a noun) my (first person singular possessive pronoun)

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

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *aku, from Proto-Austronesian *aku.

aku

1. I (personal pronoun)

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *aku.

• (Sinūgan Parianun) IPA^(key): /ʔaku/ [ʔɑˈk̠u]
• Rhymes: -u
• Syllabification: a‧ku

aku (Sulat Sūg spelling اَكُ)

1. I

Ultimately from Proto-North Halmahera (likely of the form *akun); compare Loloda akunu, Sahu nga'unu (with N- prefixation), Pagu akun.

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.ku/

aku (Jawi أكو)

1. (auxiliary) to be allowed, may

   أكو ؤواه سکالي٢ أن إهورو سسيره ― aku ua sakali-sakali ana ihoru sosira ― it is absolutely not allowed that they paddle earlier

   una owosa toma hito, mina moaku ua ― he enters the kitchen, she may not

   ngone fosabea ge aku ― we (incl.) may pray for that

As an auxiliary, aku follows the main verb. It may take the subject clitics (o, mo, etc.) only either for emphasis or when aku is used as the sole verb in a sentence.

• Frederik Sigismund Alexander de Clercq (1890) Bijdragen tot de kennis der Residentie Ternate, E.J. Brill
• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

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

From Proto-Polynesian *qa-ku. Cognates include Maori āku.

a aku

1. (alienable) mine

aku

1. (alienable) my

From Proto-Polynesian *haku. Cognates include Hawaiian aʻu and Samoan a'u.

aku

1. needlefish of the genus Strongylura

• R. Simona, editor (1986), Tokelau Dictionary‎^[7], Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 10

• yaku

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(i-)aku, from Proto-Austronesian *(i-)aku.

aku

1. I (first person singular pronoun)