cou

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈkɔw]

Verb

cou

1. inflection of coure:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Etymology

From Latin collum. Doublet of col. Cognate with Italian collo, Galician and Portuguese colo, Spanish cuello.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ku/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -u
• Homophones: coud, couds, coup, coups, cous, coût, coûts

Noun

cou m (plural cous)

1. neck

   Il a un cou assez long. ― He has a rather long neck.

Further reading

• “cou”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Adjective

cou

1. (Classical K'iche') strong

Romanization

cou

1. Nonstandard spelling of cǒu.
2. Nonstandard spelling of còu.

Alternative forms

• cow, cowe, cu, kow, kowe, ku

Etymology

Inherited from Old English cū, from Proto-West Germanic *kō (“cow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kuː/

Noun

cou (plural kyne or kie)

1. A cow (female bovine)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃoː.u/

Verb

cou

1. (transitive) alternative spelling of coou (“to serve”)

References

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Noun

cou

1. Alternative form of kə (“water”)

References

• Martius, Beiträge zur Ethnographie und Sprachenkunde Brasiliens

Etymology

From Middle English coude, from Old English cūþe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kuː/
• Homophone: kewe

Verb

cou

1. could
   • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 3, page 84:

     Aar gentrize ware bibbern, aamzil cou no stoane.

     Their gentry were quaking, themselves could not stand.

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 32

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /ɕou˨˦/
• Tone numbers: cou¹
• Hyphenation: cou

Etymology 1

From Chinese 秋 (MC tshjuw).

Etymology 2

From Chinese 周 (MC tsyuw).

Etymology 3

From Chinese 抽 (MC trhjuw).