niko

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ni-ku (“1sg. genitive; my; by me”).

• IPA^(key): /niˈku/ [niˈko]
• Rhymes: -u
• Syllabification: ni‧ko

nikó (Hanunoo spelling ᜨᜲᜣᜳ)

1. by me
2. of me
3. my

• Conklin, Harold C. (1953) Hanunóo-English Vocabulary (University of California Publications in Linguistics), volume 9, London, England: University of California Press, →OCLC, page 198
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*-ku”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

niko

1. Rōmaji transcription of にこ

From Proto-Polynesian *niko (“to go in circles” — compare with Samoan niʻo “to twirl”) variant of *liko₂ (compare with Samoan liʻo “circle” and liʻoliʻo “to encircle, to surround”) from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *likaw (“curve, bend, winding” — compare with Malay liku, lekuk and lengkuk “bend, curve (of roads, rivers)”, Iban likaw, Central Dusun hikou, and Tagalog líkaw)^[1] (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

niko

1. to coil, to form bights in ropes
2. to go around

   Synonym: pokai

niko

1. cabbage - alternative form of nīko

• Williams, Herbert William (1917) “niko”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 258
• “niko” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

• nȉtko (Croatia)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *nikъto. By surface analysis, ni- +‎ ko.

• IPA^(key): /nîko/
• Hyphenation: ni‧ko

nȉko (Cyrillic spelling ни̏ко)

1. no one, nobody

   Synonyms: (Kajkavian) nikdo; (Kajkavian) nigdo

niko

1. first-person singular positive degree present of -wako (“I am (around there)”)