ko

Borrowed from Japanese 劫 (kō).

ko (plural ko)

1. (game of Go) A local shape to which the ko rule applies; a ko shape.

   Black gets an easy game by just filling the ko.

2. (game of Go) ko fight

   Black wins the ko easily.

3. (game of Go) a stone in a ko in atari, a ko stone

   Black recaptures the ko and white has to find another ko threat.

• O. K., OK, OK., Ok, Ok., ok

ko

1. to lie down

• Greenhill, S.J., Blust. R, & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

• IPA^(key): [kò]

ko

1. to say

• IPA^(key): [kó]

ko

1. to wash

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

From Old Norse kýr (East dialect ko, compare Swedish ko), from Proto-Germanic *kūz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws (“cow”).

ko c (singular definite koen, plural indefinite køer)

1. cow

• “ko” in Den Danske Ordbog

• Audio

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ko (accusative singular ko-on, plural ko-oj, accusative plural ko-ojn)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter K.

• (Latin-script letter names) litero; a, bo, co, ĉo, do, e, fo, go, ĝo, ho, ĥo, i, jo, ĵo, ko, lo, mo, no, o, po, ro, so, ŝo, to, u, ŭo, vo, zo

ko

1. to laugh

ko m (plural ko)

1. Abbreviation of kilooctet (kilobyte)

ko

1. water
2. medicine
3. relative, fellow Kotiria

• Kristine Stenzel, A Reference Grammar of Kotiria (Wanano)

• kō

ko

1. of, belonging to first part of possessive constructions, o-type

   ko mākou hale ― our house

   ko ke kumu kaʻa ― the teacher's car

ko

1. Rōmaji transcription of こ
2. Rōmaji transcription of コ

ko

1. why

ko

1. why

ko

1. why

From Sanskrit কথযতি (katháyati). Cognate with Assamese ক (ko), Sylheti ꠇꠅꠀ (xooa), Bengali কওয়া (kôoya), Hindustani कहना (kahnā) / کہنا‎ (kahnā).

ko

1. say
2. tell

   Oĩ mök koisil.

   He told me

3. speak

   kotha ko ― speak

ko

1. like, as

ko

1. woman

Bill Palmer, The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area (→ISBN, 2017), page 531, table 95, Comparative basic vocabulary in Lakes Plain Languages

ko (interrogative)

1. what, who (accusative case of kas)

   ko tu gribi apskatīt? ― what would you like to see?

ko (relative)

1. that (accusative case of kas)

   teksts, ko tu lasi ― the text that you're reading

2. what, who (accusative case of kas)

   tas ir tas, ko es domāju ― that is what I mean

3. which (accusative case of kas)

ko

1. sorry?
2. pardon?
3. what?

ko

1. what

ko

1. head

• Russell G. Schuh, Maka Wordlist, p. 6

ko

1. Placed at the beginning of nominative phrases to signify that they are declarative

ko (using Raguileo Alphabet)

1. water

• Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.
• Estudios de lengua y cultura amerindias II (1998) (spells it có)

ko (POJ, traditional and simplified 高)

1. high
2. tall

It is nearly always used exclusively as part of a name or compound.

• 高速 (ko-sok, “high-speed”)
• 高溫／高温 (ko-un, “high-temperature”)

ko (POJ, traditional and simplified 膏)

1. paste; cream

It is nearly always used exclusively as part of a name or compound.

• 齒膏／齿膏 (khí-ko, “toothpaste”)

• co (Jersey, Guernsey, Normandy)

From Old French col, from Latin collum (“neck”).

ko m (plural kos)

1. (Sark, anatomy) neck

• ku

From Proto-Tani *koː.

ko

1. child
2. son

• P. T. Abraham (2005) A Grammar of Nyishi Language‎, Delhi: Farsight Publishers and Distributors

ko ?

1. (East dialect) cow

• kýr

• Wikipedia article Old Norse language

ko

1. masculine nominative singular of ka

ko

1. exclamation suggesting a personal reaction

For non-personal judgment, consider using ka.

ko

1. particle prefixed to names as a determinative

ko

1. again

• Norma Toland, Donald Toland, Reference Grammar of the Karo/Rawa Language (1991)

From Proto-Slavic *kъto, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷos, *kʷid, (compare *kʷis).

• (Croatian) tkȍ

• IPA^(key): /kô/

kȍ (Cyrillic spelling ко̏)

1. (Serbia, Bosnia, interrogatively) who

   (t)ko si ti? ― who are you

2. (Serbia, Bosnia, relative and indefinite pronoun)

   bilo (t)ko ― anybody, anyone

   malo (t)ko ― very few people

   onaj (t)ko ― he who, whoever

From kȁo.

ko (Cyrillic spelling ко)

1. (colloquial) contraction of kȁo

• kȁo

• “ko” in Hrvatski jezični portal
• “ko” in Hrvatski jezični portal

See Serbo-Croatian ako.

• IPA^(key): /kɔ/
• Tonal orthography: ko

ko

1. when (at the time that)

ko

1. (colloquial) Alternative form of kot

From Old Norse ko, from East Old Norse ko, from Proto-Germanic *kūz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws (“cow”). Cognate with Old West Norse kýr and English cow.

• IPA^(key): /kuː/

• audio

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ko c

1. cow; female cattle

   Många kor bor i stall under vinterhalvåret

   Many cows live in stables during the winter.

2. a female member of a number of other species, such as elk

   Jag såg en älgko och hennes kalv när jag var i skogen.

   I saw an elk cow and her calf when I was in the forest.

• kossa
• oxe
• stut
• kreatur
• nöt, nötkreatur
• kalv
• kviga

• ko in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)

• IPA^(key): /ˈko/

ko

1. my

ko

1. I (as actor of a verb)
2. me

ko

1. egg

Bill Palmer, The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area (→ISBN, 2017), page 531, table 95, Comparative basic vocabulary in Lakes Plain Languages

From Proto-Tocharian, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws (“cow”). Compare Tocharian B keu, English cow.

ko

1. cow

ko

1. present perfect tense marker, inserted immediately before the relevant verb

• k°

ko

1. (informal) Abbreviation of không.

Borrowed from Spanish con (“with”).

ko

1. with

From Old Frisian kū, from Proto-Germanic *kūz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws.

ko c (plural kij, diminutive koke)

1. cow

• seeko

• “ko”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

ko

1. him/her/it (third-person singular object pronoun)

-ko

1. Combining stem of kona.

• IPA^(key): [ˈko]
• Hyphenation: ko

From Persian کوه‎ (kuh).

ko m

1. (geography) mountain