vuku

•  viku

From Old Norse viku, accusative of vika, from Proto-Germanic *wikǭ.

• (Western dialects) IPA^(key): [²ʋɵˑkʉ]^[1]
• (Central dialects) IPA^(key): [²ʋɔːkɔ]^[2]
• (Hackås, Oviken) IPA^(key): [²ʋɔkːɵ]^[3]

vuku f

1. week

• vukku (Trøndelag)

Metaphony of another form, viku, originally also the oblique singular form of Old Norse vika (“week”), a shared development with Jamtish vuku. A similar metaphony seems to have taken place with Old English wucu. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *wikǭ, cognate with English week.

• IPA^(key): [²ʋʉˑ.kʉ], [²ʋɵˑ.kʉ], [²ʋɵˑ.kɵ]
• (Trøndelag) IPA^(key): [²ʋʉk.kʉ]
• (Selbu) IPA^(key): [²ʋʉˑ.kʉ], def. IPA^(key): [²ʋu̞ˑ.kũ̞]
• Note: The vowels are short or half-long in all the declensions.
• Homophone: Vuku

vuku f

1. (dialectal, Trøndelag, Østerdalsmål, Central Gudbrandsdal) alternative form of veke f (“week”)

Metaphony of another form, vòku, from Old Norse vǫku, oblique cases singular of vaka.

vuku f (definite singular vuko, indefinite plural vukur, definite plural vukune)

1. (Midlandsnormalen) (pre-1917) alternative form of voke

• Vuku

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vuku

1. full (stomach)

Borrowed from Tok Pisin buk, from English book, from Middle English bok, from Old English bōc, from Proto-Germanic *bōks, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂ǵos.

vuku

1. book

• tugoropa vuku

• Firchow, Irwin, Firchow, Jacqueline, Akoitai, David (1973) Vocabulary of Rotokas - Pidgin - English‎^[1], Ukarumpa: Summer Institute of Linguistics, page 160

vuku

1. dative/locative singular of vuk

vuku (Cyrillic spelling вуку)

1. third-person plural present indicative of vući

From Ottoman Turkish وقوع (vuku, “event; fall”), from Arabic وُقُوع (wuqūʕ), verbal noun of وَقَعَ (waqaʕa).

vuku (definite accusative vukuu, plural vukular)

1. event, occurrence

   vuku bulmak ― to happen

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “وقوع”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1314
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “vuku”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN