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From Icelandic álka, from Old Norse alka (“auk”), from Proto-Germanic *alkǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁el- (“a kind of bird”). Cognate with Swedish alka (“auk”), Norwegian and Danish alke (“auk”), Swedish dialectal alla (“long-tailed duck”) (Clangula hyemalis, syn. Fuligula glacialis), Latin olor (“swan”), Ancient Greek ἐλέα (eléa, “marsh-bird”), Welsh alarch (“swan”).
- IPA(key): /ɔːk/
- Rhymes: -ɔːk
- Homophones: awk; orc (non-rhotic)
auk (plural auks)
- Any of several species of Arctic sea birds of the family Alcidae.
- Synonym: alcid
2018 June 20, Louise Tickle, The Guardian[1]:
Further afield, these auks are also in dire straits: Norway has seen vertiginous crashes, with hundreds of thousands of adult puffins in the once-teeming colony of Røst struggling to fledge any chicks in recent years.
seabird of the family Alcidae
- Asturian: pingüín (ast)
- Bulgarian: гагарка (gagarka)
- Catalan: àlcid
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 海雀科 (hǎiquèkē)
- Czech: alka (cs) f
- Dutch: alk (nl) f
- Esperanto: aŭko
- Faroese: svartfuglur m
- Finnish: ruokki (fi)
- French: pingouin (fr) m
- Galician: arao romeiro (gl) m
- German: Alk (de) m, Alkenvogel m (family: Alkenvögel)
- Hindi: अलका (hi) (alkā)
- Hungarian: alka (hu)
- Irish: falcóg f
- Italian: alca (it) f
- Japanese: 海雀 (ja) (umisuzume)
- Manx: alk m
- Marathi: अलका (alkā)
- Old Norse: alka f
- Polish: alka (pl) f
- Portuguese: torda (pt) f
- Romanian: alcă f, pinguin nordic m
- Russian: гага́рка (ru) f (gagárka)
- Slovak: alka (sk) f
- Spanish: alca (es) f
- Swedish: alka (sv) c
- Welsh: carfil m
From Proto-Finnic *aukko. Cognate to Finnish aukko, Livonian ouk and Votic aukko.
auk (genitive augu, partitive auku)
Declension of auk (ÕS type 22e/riik, k-g gradation) | |||
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singular | plural | ||
nominative | auk | augud | |
accusative | nom. | ||
gen. | augu | ||
genitive | aukude | ||
partitive | auku | auke aukusid | |
illative | auku augusse |
aukudesse augesse | |
inessive | augus | aukudes auges | |
elative | august | aukudest augest | |
allative | augule | aukudele augele | |
adessive | augul | aukudel augel | |
ablative | augult | aukudelt augelt | |
translative | auguks | aukudeks augeks | |
terminative | auguni | aukudeni | |
essive | auguna | aukudena | |
abessive | auguta | aukudeta | |
comitative | auguga | aukudega |
auk
- Romanization of 𐌰𐌿𐌺
auk
- (governs the genitive) in addition to
- að auki, þar að auki (besides, moreover)
- auk heldur
- auk þess heldur, aukin heldur
- auk þess
auk
- Latin spelling of ᐊᐅᒃ (aok)
auk
- imperative of auke
auk
- imperative of auka
From Proto-Germanic *auk (“also”). Cognate with Old English ēac, Old Frisian āk, Old Saxon ōk, Old High German ouh, Gothic 𐌰𐌿𐌺 (auk).
auk (runic script ᛅᚢᚴ)
auk
From Proto-Tocharian *ewk, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ógʷʰis. Cognate with Ancient Greek ὄφις (óphis) and Sanskrit अहि (ahi).
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