kiko
Hawaiian
Etymology
From Proto-Eastern Polynesian *tito (“to peck”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈki.ko/, [ˈti.ko]
Verb
kiko(transitive)
Derived terms
- hoʻokiko (causative)
- kikokiko (reduplicated form)
- manu kiko (“woodpecker”)
Noun
kiko
Derived terms
- kiko hoʻomaha (“comma”)
- kiko kahi (“period”)
- kiko kolu (“ellipsis”)
- kiko moe (“hyphen”)
- kiko nīnau (“question mark”)
- kiko pūʻiwa (“exclamation mark”)
Further reading
- kiko in Combined Hawaiian Dictionary, at trussel2.com.
Maori
Etymology
From Proto-Polynesian *kiko (“flesh”). Compare Tahitian ʻiʻo and Samoan ʻiʻo.[1][2]
Noun
kiko
Derived terms
References
- ^ Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary[1], Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, pages 147-8
- ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “kiko.a”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551-559
Further reading
- Williams, Herbert William (1917) “kiko, kikokiko”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 138
- “kiko” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.
Papiamentu
Alternative forms
- ki (synonym)
Etymology
Pronoun
kiko
Rapa Nui
Noun
kiko
Spanish
Etymology
From the brand Kikos.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkiko/ [ˈki.ko]
- Rhymes: -iko
- Syllabification: ki‧ko
- Homophone: Quico
Noun
kiko m (plural kikos)
Further reading
- “kiko”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
Swahili
Pronunciation
Audio (Kenya): (file)
Etymology 1
Noun
kiko class VII (plural viko class VIII)
- pipe (smoking tool)
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
kiko
- ki class(VII) positive degree present of -wako (“it is (around there)”)