iku

iku

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Inuktitut.

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ikuʀ, *ikuŋ, compare Malay ekor.

iku

1. tail (appendage of an animal)

iku

1. Romanization of 𐌹𐌺𐌿

From Proto-Malayic *ikur, *ikuŋ (compare Brunei Malay ekong, Malay ekor, Minangkabau ikua), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ikuʀ, *ikuŋ (compare Acehnese iku, Balinese ikut, Buginese ikkoʔ), from Proto-Austronesian *ikuʀ.

• IPA^(key): /i.kʊʔ/

iku

1. (anatomy) tail (appendage of an animal)

iku

1. Classifier used for animals and people.

   Tiga iku mayau ― Three cats

   Dua puluh iku pengajar ― Twenty teachers

iku

1. Rōmaji transcription of いく

• kuwi (dialectal)

iku

1. that, those

From Proto-Austronesian *(i-)aku.

iku

1. I (personal pronoun)

From Japanese 行く (iku, “to go”).

iku (realis negative ikanay, irrealis negative ikang)

1. to go

• tike, tikang

• Chien Yuehchen, Shinji Sanada (2011) “台湾の宜蘭クレオールにおける否定辞―「ナイ」と「ン」の変容をめぐって― [Negation in Taiwan’s Yilan Creole: Focusing on -nay and -ng]”, in 言語研究 [Gengo Kenkyu]‎, number 140, pages 73-87
• 真田信治 [Shinji Sanada] (2015) “宜蘭クレオールにおけるsound substitutionについて [On the sound substitution of Yilan Creole]”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎

• ukú

i- (“non-gerundive nominalizer”) +‎ kú (“to die”)

• IPA^(key): /ī.kú/

ikú

1. death

   Synonyms: ìwàjà, ìtẹrígbaṣọ, ìpapòdà (euphemisms)

• ọjọ́ ikú (“time of death”)
• Ikú (“the personification of death”)

From Proto-Mixtec *íkú.

iku

1. yesterday

• 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)‎ (in Spanish), third edition, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 10