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Onomatopoeic.

nuk

  1. (comics) The sound of a pacifier being suckled on.

From Proto-Albanian *ne uka (“not one”), from Proto-Indo-European *óynos (“one”). Cognates include Latin unicus, Gothic 𐌰𐌹𐌽𐌰𐌷𐌰 (ainaha), Old High German einac, Old Church Slavonic инокъ (inokŭ, “alone, only, single, sole”). Alternatively, Orel proposes *nuka, composed of *nu (< Proto-Indo-European *ne, colored under the influence of the following labiovelar) and *ka (< Proto-Indo-European *kʷo- (*-kʷe), a pronomial stem); thus cognate to Latin neque (“and not”), Sanskrit नच (naca, “and not”), Gothic 𐌽𐌹𐌷 (nih, “and not”), Old Irish nach (“and not”).[1]

nuk

  1. Negates the meaning of the modified verb: not, don't
    Synonym: s'

    Ky film nuk është i mirë.

    This movie isn't good.

    Ai nuk mban syze.

    He doesn't wear glasses.
  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “nuk”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 302

nuk

  1. stomach

Related to archaic nucke (“cunning, craft”), ultimately from the root of neuken (“to be annoying to”). See also Icelandic hnykkja (“to jerk”).

nuk f (plural nukken, diminutive nukje n)

  1. whim, impulse