wiku

== Elfdalian == === Noun === wiku f (definite singular wiką̊) alternative spelling of wikå (“week”) == Indonesian == === Etymology === Borrowed from Javanese ꦮꦶꦏꦸ (wiku, “priest; monk, nun”), from Old Javanese wiku (“sage; priest; monk, nun”), from Pali bhikkhu (“beggar, Buddhist monk”), from Sanskrit भिक्षु (bhikṣú, “mendicant”). Doublet of biku and biksu. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [ˈwiku] Hyphenation: wi‧ku === Noun === wiku (obsolete) monk === Further reading === “wiku”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016 == Javanese == === Romanization === wiku romanization of ꦮꦶꦏꦸ == Old Javanese == === Etymology === Borrowed from Pali bhikkhu (“beggar, Buddhist monk”), from Sanskrit भिक्षु (bhikṣú, “mendicant”). Doublet of biku. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /wi.ku/ Rhymes: -ku Hyphenation: wi‧ku === Noun === wiku holy man, sage priest monk, nun, ascetic, anchorite or anchoress, hermit ==== Alternative forms ==== biku ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== > Javanese: ꦮꦶꦏꦸ (wiku) (inherited)→ Indonesian: wiku → Balinese: ᬯᬶᬓᬸ (wiku) === Further reading === "wiku" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982. == Unami == === Etymology === From wiki (“to dwell, to live at”) +‎ -w (third-persons suffix). Cognate with Munsee wíikuw (“he dwells”). === Verb === wiku third-person singular of wiki ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Related terms ==== wikëwam wikhao wikhe wikhèt wikhatuwàk === References === Rementer, Jim with Pearson, Bruce L. (2005), “wiku”, in Grant Leneaux, Raymond Whritenour, editors, The Lenape Talking Dictionary, The Lenape Language Preservation Project