doko

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English

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Noun

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doko (plural dokos)

  1. (archaic) A lungfish.
    • 1887, Henry Davenport Northrop, Earth, sea and sky: or, marvels of the universe, page 683:
      If the water, which the doko has chosen for its habitation becomes dried up, it wraps itself in a kind of a capsule of mud []
  2. a kind of basket made from bamboo, used by porters in Nepal, Bhutan and northern India.

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Chichewa

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Etymology

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Unknown. Sometimes claimed to be a borrowing from English dock, which is extremely unlikely due to the term being attested in the dictionary of Johannes Rebmann, compiled before contact with English speakers, as well due to the implosive consonant.

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Noun

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doko class 5 (plural madoko class 6)

  1. harbor or landing place for boats

Esperanto

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Etymology

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From German Dock, Yiddish דאָק (dok), English dock, all ultimately from Dutch dok.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈdoko]
  • Rhymes: -oko
  • Hyphenation: do‧ko

Noun

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doko (accusative singular dokon, plural dokoj, accusative plural dokojn)

  1. (nautical) dock

Japanese

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Romanization

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doko

  1. Rōmaji transcription of どこ

Nupe

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Dòkò gútá

Etymology 1

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From Hausa dōkī̀.

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Noun

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dòkò (plural dòkòzhì)

  1. horse
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Etymology 2

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Verb

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dókó

  1. to plan; to consider
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Shona

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Adjective

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-dóko

  1. Karanga and Manyika form of -diki

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Ternate

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Noun

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doko (Jawi دوکو)

  1. Areca glandiformis

References

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

Yilan Creole

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Etymology

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From Japanese どこ (doko, where).

Pronoun

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doko

  1. where

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References

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  • Chien Yuehchen (2019) “日本語を上層とする 宜蘭クレオールの指示詞”, in 社会言語科学 [The Japanese Journal of Language in Society][1], volume 21, number 2, pages 50-65