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

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