cou

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [ˈkɔw]

cou

1. inflection of coure:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

From Latin collum. Doublet of col. Cognate with Italian collo, Galician and Portuguese colo, Spanish cuello.

• IPA^(key): /ku/

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• Rhymes: -u
• Homophones: coud, couds, coup, coups, cous, coût, coûts

cou m (plural cous)

1. neck

   Il a un cou assez long. ― He has a rather long neck.

• “cou”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

cou

1. (Classical K'iche') strong

• couil
• couirizah
• couiric
• couizah

cou

1. Nonstandard spelling of cǒu.
2. Nonstandard spelling of còu.

• 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.

• cow, cowe, cu, kow, kowe, ku

From Old English cū, from Proto-West Germanic *kō (“cow”).

• IPA^(key): /kuː/

cou (plural kyne or kie)

1. A cow (female bovine)

• couherde

• English: cow (see there for further descendants)
• Geordie English: coo
• Scots: coo, coe, cou
• Yola: keow

• “cǒu, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃoː.u/

cou

1. (transitive) to serve

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh (as coou)

cou

1. Alternative form of kə (“water”)

• Martius, Beiträge zur Ethnographie und Sprachenkunde Brasiliens

From Middle English coude, from Old English cūþe.

• IPA^(key): /kuː/

cou

1. could
   • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 3, page 84:

     Aar gentrize ware bibbern, aamzil cou no stoane.

     Their gentry were quaking, themselves could not stand.

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 32

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /ɕou˨˦/
• Tone numbers: cou¹
• Hyphenation: cou

From Chinese 秋 (MC tshjuw).

cou (Sawndip form ⿱日召, 1957–1982 spelling cou)

1. autumn

From Chinese 周 (MC tsyuw).

cou (1957–1982 spelling cou)

1. week

• singhgiz
• lijbai

From Chinese 抽 (MC trhjuw).

cou (1957–1982 spelling cou)

1. to draw (lots)