juk

Clipping of English Jukun Wapan.

juk

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

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Wapan terms

Borrowed from Cantonese 粥 (zuk1) or Korean 죽 (juk). Doublet of zhou and jook.

juk (uncountable)

1. (Korean or Cantonese contexts) Synonym of congee.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:juk.

From Dutch juk.

juk (plural jukke)

1. yoke

• jukskei
• roerjuk

From Middle Dutch joc, juc, from Old Dutch *juk, from Proto-Germanic *juką, from Proto-Indo-European *yugóm. Compare German Joch, West Frisian jok, English yoke, Danish åg, Swedish ok.

• Rhymes: -ʏk

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juk n (plural jukken, diminutive jukje n)

1. a yoke
2. a burden; something which represses or restrains a person

• Negerhollands: jok

• “juk” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]

juk

1. romanization of 𐌾𐌿𐌺

• jü (Kamviri)
• jukuř (Eastern Kata-viri, Kamviri)

From Proto-Nuristani *jūtā, from earlier *duyitā, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *dʰúgʰHtā, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰugh₂tḗr.

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒuk/

juk f (Western Kata-viri)^[1]

1. daughter
2. woman

Cognate with Latvian juk, with further origin unclear.^[1] Has been taken as a derivative of jùnkti (“to get used to”).^[2] Endzelins compares the word to Proto-Germanic *juką (“yoke”).^[3] According to Ostrowski, from a conflation of juõ (“especially”) +‎ kai̇̃ (“when”). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

• IPA^(key): [ˈjʊ̂kʰ]

jùk

1. emphatic particle: after all

• “juk”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2025
• Vytautas Ambrazas (2006) Lithuanian Grammar, 2nd revised edition, pages 401–402
• Norbert Ostrowski (2015) “The Origin of the Lithuanian Particle »jùk«”, in Artūras Judžentis & Stephan Kessler, editor, Contributions to Morphology and Syntax. Proceedings of the 4th Greifswald University Conference on Baltic Languages‎^[3], pages 201–215

• IPA^(key): /jʏk/

jük

1. (personal pronoun, dative, accusative) alternative form of jû

• juka

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish یوك (yük). Doublet of wiuk.

• IPA^(key): /ˈjuk/

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• Rhymes: -uk
• Syllabification: juk

juk m inan (related adjective juczny)

1. (usually in the plural) saddlebag, kyack

   Synonym: wiuk

• juk in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• juk in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “JUKI”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
• Marek Kunicki-Goldfinger (06.09.2023) “JUK”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
• Brückner, Aleksander (1927) “juki”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), Warsaw: Wiedza Powszechna

• huk

juk

1. one

From Proto-Aslian *ɟuŋ (“leg, foot”), from Proto-Mon-Khmer *ɟuŋ ~ *ɟuəŋ ~ *ɟəŋ (“leg, foot”). Cognate with Khmer ជើង (cəəng), Bahnar jơ̆ng, Mon ဇိုၚ် and Vietnamese chân. Munda cognates include Santali ᱡᱟᱝᱜᱟ (jaṅga).

juk^[1]

1. (Anatomy) leg

juk (nominative plural juks)

1. shoe

• jukel
• jukön