kõuk

Estonian

Etymology

Possibly from Proto-Baltic *kaukas. Compare Lithuanian kaukas (“ghost”) and Old Prussian cawx (“devil”). Cognate to dialectal/archaic Finnish kouko (“ghost, death”).

Noun

kõuk (genitive kõugu, partitive kõugu)

  1. distant ancestor

Declension

Derived terms

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