niko

== Hanunoo == === Etymology === From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ni-ku (“1sg. genitive; my; by me”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /niˈku/ [niˈko] Rhymes: -u Syllabification: ni‧ko === Pronoun === nikó (Hanunoo spelling ᜨᜲᜣᜳ) by me of me my ==== See also ==== === Further reading === Conklin, Harold C. (1953), Hanunóo-English Vocabulary (University of California Publications in Linguistics), volume 9, London, England: University of California Press, →OCLC, page 198 Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*-ku”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI == Japanese == === Romanization === niko Rōmaji transcription of にこ == Māori == === Etymology === From Proto-Polynesian *niko (“to go in circles” — compare with Samoan niʻo “to twirl”) variant of *liko₂ (compare with Samoan liʻo “circle” and liʻoliʻo “to encircle, to surround”) from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *likaw (“curve, bend, winding” — compare with Malay liku, lekuk and lengkuk “bend, curve (of roads, rivers)”, Iban likaw, Central Dusun hikou, and Tagalog líkaw) (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈniko/ [ˈnikɔ] === Verb === niko to coil, to form bights in ropes to go around Synonym: pokai === Noun === niko cabbage - alternative form of nīko === Derived terms === === References === === Further reading === Williams, Herbert William (1917), “niko”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 258 “niko” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN. == Serbo-Croatian == === Alternative forms === nȉtko (Croatia) === Etymology === Inherited from Proto-Slavic *nikъto. By surface analysis, ni- +‎ ko. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /nîko/ Hyphenation: ni‧ko === Pronoun === nȉko ? (Cyrillic spelling ни̏ко) no one, nobody Synonyms: (Kajkavian) nikdo; (Kajkavian) nigdo ==== Declension ==== == Swahili == === Verb === niko first-person singular positive degree present of -wako (“I am (around there)”)