kaku - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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kaku

1. genitive singular of kakk

kaku

1. stiff

kaku

1. Rōmaji transcription of かく

kaku

1. water

• J. R. Opgenort, About Chaurasia, in Linguistics of the Himalayas and Beyond

kaku class 5 (singular kaku, singular dikaku, plural makaku)

1. monkey

• → Portuguese: macaco
  • → English: macaco
  • → French: macaque
    • → Czech: makak
    • → Dutch: makaak
    • → English: macaque
      • → Irish: meacaic
    • → Finnish: makaki
    • → Greek: μακάκος (makákos)
    • Haitian Creole: makak
    • → Polish: makak
    • → Romanian: macac
    • → Russian: мака́ка (makáka)
  • → Italian: macaco
  • → Japanese: マカク (makaku)
  • → Mirandese: macaco
  • → Spanish: macaco

kaku f

1. inflection of kaka:
   1. accusative/instrumental singular
   2. genitive plural

• IPA^(key): [ˈkaku]

kaku

1. accusative feminine singular of kaki

kaku

1. maternal uncle

• IPA^(key): /ka.ˈku/, [ka.ˈku]

kaku

1. I

kaku

1. to break

• Ulrike Mosel, The Teop sketch grammar

kaku

1. water

• J. R. Opgenort, About Chaurasia, in Linguistics of the Himalayas and Beyond
• J. R. Opgenort, A Grammar of Wambule

kaku

1. fish

• Mary Laughren, Rob Pensalfini, Tom Mylne, Accounting for verb-initial order in an Australian language, in Verb First: On the syntax of verb-initial languages (2005)

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.ku/

kaku

1. (stative) to be small

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

From Proto-Mixtec *kákú.

kaku

1. (intransitive) be born

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kaku

1. (intrnasitive) escape

• Beaty de Farris, Kathryn, et al. (2012) Diccionario básico del mixteco de Yosondúa, Oaxaca (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 46)‎^[2] (in Spanish), third edition, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 24