koto

From Japanese 箏 (koto).

koto (plural kotos)

1. (music) A Japanese stringed instrument having numerous strings, usually seven or thirteen, that are stretched over a convex wooden sounding board and are plucked with three plectra, worn on the thumb, index finger, and middle finger of one hand.
   • 1962, Philip K. Dick, “The Man in the High Castle”, in Four Novels of the 1960s, Library of America, published 2007, page 94:

     Seated on the soft carpet with their drinks, they listened to a recording of koto, Japanese thirteen-string harp.

• Koot, Otok, toko, toko-, took

koto

1. poncho.
2. blanket.

• Valentín Isidro Reyes (2012); Vocabulario nauatl-español, material de apoyo para la enseñanza de la lengua nauatl, Universidad Pedagógica Nacional, diversidad intercultural, Mexico City, Mexico.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoː.toː/
• Hyphenation: ko‧to
• Rhymes: -oːtoː

Borrowed from Sranan Tongo koto, from English coat.

koto m (plural koto's)

1. a traditional Surinamese dress, traditionally worn by women of African descent

Borrowed from Japanese 箏 (koto).

koto m (plural koto's)

1. a koto; a Japanese stringed instrument

Borrowed from German Kot.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoto/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -oto
• Hyphenation: ko‧to

koto (accusative singular koton, plural kotoj, accusative plural kotojn)

1. mud (mixture of water and soil or sediment)

• kota (“muddy”)
• kotanimulo (“low-minded person”)
• koti (“to puddle”)

• grundo (“ground; dirt; soil”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoto/, [ˈko̞t̪o̞]
• Rhymes: -oto
• Syllabification^(key): ko‧to
• Hyphenation^(key): ko‧to

From Proto-Finnic *koto. Equivalent to kota +‎ -o. Cognate with Estonian kodu.

koto (archaic)

1. home
   • 1855, Aleksis Kivi, Koto ja kahleet‎^[1]:

     Hän muisteli kotoansa kivisellä aholla yläpuolella vihantoja peltoja ja korkean vuoren alla.

     He reminisced his home on the rocky glade above the verdant fields and beneath the tall mountain.

• koti

• “1. koto”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 1 July 2023

From Japanese 箏 (koto).

koto

1. (music) koto (instrument)

• “2. koto”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[3] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 1 July 2023

• koot, toko

Borrowed from Japanese 箏 (koto).

• IPA^(key): /ko.to/

• Audio:

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koto m (plural kotos)

1. koto (musical instruments)

• koto on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr

• “koto”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

koto

1. Rōmaji transcription of こと
2. Rōmaji transcription of コト

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kutu, from Proto-Austronesian *kuCu.

koto (plural kotokoto)

1. louse (insect)

From kutu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kutu.

koto

1. louse

koto

1. louse (insect)

From English coat.

• IPA^(key): /ˈko.to/

koto

1. A traditional African-Surinamese dress.

• → Dutch: koto

From kaut- (“split, strike, break”).

koto f

1. crevice, hole, pit

• Adams, Douglas Q. (2013) “koto”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 215

From Proto-Finnic *koto.

• (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈkoto/, [ˈkoto]
• Rhymes: -oto
• Hyphenation: ko‧to

koto

1. house, home

Declension of koto (type II/võrkko, t- gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	koto	kood
genitive	koo	kotojõ, kotoi
partitive	kottoa	kotoitõ, kotoi
illative	kottosõ, kotto	kotoisõ
inessive	kooz	kotoiz
elative	koossõ	kotoissõ
allative	koolõ	kotoilõ
adessive	koollõ	kotoillõ
ablative	kooltõ	kotoiltõ
translative	koossi	kotoissi
*) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the terminative is formed by adding the suffix -ssaa to the short illative (sg) or the genitive. ***) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka to the genitive.

• Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kutu, from Proto-Austronesian *kuCu.

koto

1. louse (insect)