kagu

Wikispecies

• cagou

kagu (plural kagus)

1. A New Caledonian endemic bird species, Rhynochetos jubatus, the only surviving member of the family Rhynochetidae.
   • 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 33:

     Therewith hastened the Kagu into the shadowy hall, moving softly and rolling a little in her gait, with her head thrust forward; and a little flurried was she in her bearing as she darted this way and that her large and beautiful eyes, mild and timid, that were like liquid gold heated to redness. Somewhat like a heron she was, but stouter, and shorter of leg, and her beak shorter and thicker than the heron’s; and so long and delicate was her pale gray plumage that hard it was to say whether it were hair or feathers.

Cognate to Finnish kaakko (“south-east”) and Ingrian kakko (“south-east”). Most likely the same root as in kakerdama (“to move in an uncertain manner”).

• Rhymes: -ɑɡu

kagu (genitive kagu, partitive kagu)

1. southeast

compass points:  ^[edit]

From French cagou.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑɡu/, [ˈkɑ̝ɡu]
• Rhymes: -ɑɡu
• Syllabification^(key): ka‧gu
• Hyphenation^(key): ka‧gu

kagu

1. (Rhynochetos jubatus)

kagu

1. Rōmaji transcription of かぐ