kou

Borrowed from English cow.

kou

1. cow

From older koude, from Middle Dutch coude, alteration (based on the adjective) of kelde, from Old Dutch *keldi, from Proto-West Germanic *kaldī. Cognate with German Kälte.

• IPA^(key): /kɑu̯/

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• Hyphenation: kou
• Rhymes: -ɑu̯
• Homophones: kauw, kouw

kou f (uncountable, diminutive koutje n)

1. cold (low temperature)
2. cold (illness)

   Synonym: verkoudheid

• koude, kouwe

• IPA^(key): /ku/

From French cou (“neck”).

kou

1. neck

From French coup.

kou

1. blow, strike

• koudam
• koudèy
• koupe
• kout

• IPA^(key): /ˈkou̯/, [ˈkow]

From Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *tou, from Proto-Polynesian *te-o-u (“second person singular possessive, o-class”). Cognate with Maori tōu.

kou

1. your second person singular, o-type

• ou
• nou

From Proto-Polynesian *tou (“species of Cordia”), from Proto-Oceanic *koʀu (“Cordia subcordata”).

kou

1. Cordia subcordata (a tree with wood highly valued for woodworking)

• kou in Combined Hawaiian Dictionary, at trussel2.com.

kou

1. Rōmaji transcription of こう

kou

1. wood

kou

1. nonstandard spelling of kōu
2. nonstandard spelling of kǒu
3. nonstandard spelling of kòu

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

• ku

From French cou.

kou

1. neck

From French coup.

kou

1. blow; strike

• enn kou

• IPA^(key): /ˈko.u/

kou

1. (intransitive) to break (of wood, etc.)

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[1], Pacific linguistics