auk

• awk, alk

From Icelandic álka, from Old Norse alka (“auk”), from Proto-Germanic *alkǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁el- (“a kind of bird”). Cognate with Swedish alka (“auk”), Norwegian and Danish alke (“auk”), Swedish dialectal alla (“long-tailed duck”) (Clangula hyemalis, syn. Fuligula glacialis), Latin olor (“swan”), Ancient Greek ἐλέα (eléa, “marsh-bird”), Welsh alarch (“swan”).

• IPA^(key): /ɔːk/
• Rhymes: -ɔːk
• Homophones: awk, orc (in non-rhotic accents)

auk (plural auks)

1. Any of several species of Arctic sea birds of the family Alcidae.
   • 2018, Louise Tickle, The Guardian, 20 June:

     Further afield, these auks are also in dire straits: Norway has seen vertiginous crashes, with hundreds of thousands of adult puffins in the once-teeming colony of Røst struggling to fledge any chicks in recent years.

   Synonym: alcid

• Kau

From Proto-Finnic *aukko. Cognate to Finnish aukko, Livonian ouk and Votic aukko.

auk (genitive augu, partitive auku)

1. hole, cavity
2. pit
3. gap, opening

• must auk
• auklik

auk

1. Romanization of 𐌰𐌿𐌺

• IPA^(key): [øyːk]

  Rhymes: -øyːk

auk

1. (governs the genitive) in addition to

• að auki, þar að auki (besides, moreover)
• auk heldur
• auk þess heldur, aukin heldur
• auk þess

auk

1. Latin spelling of ᐊᐅᒃ (aok)

auk

1. imperative of auke

auk

1. imperative of auka

• ok

From Proto-Germanic *auk (“also”). Cognate with Old English ēac, Old Frisian āk, Old Saxon ōk, Old High German ouh, Gothic 𐌰𐌿𐌺 (auk).

auk (runic script ᛅᚢᚴ)

1. and

• Icelandic: auk, og
• Faroese: og
• Norwegian Nynorsk: og, au, aug; (dialectal) ok, auk, ug
• Norwegian Bokmål: og, òg, au
• Jamtish: og
• Elfdalian: og
• Old Swedish: ok, oc, och, ogh
  • Swedish: och, ock
• Old Danish: oc
  • Danish: og
• → Middle English: oc, ok
  • ⇒ Scots: okname, ockname

auk

1. bamboo

From Proto-Indo-European *h₁ógʷʰis. Cognate with Ancient Greek ὄφις (óphis) and Sanskrit अहि (ahi).

auk ?

1. snake, serpent

auk

1. blood