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cô

See also: Appendix:Variations of "co"

Canela

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Etymology

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From Proto-Northern Jê *ŋgô (“water”) < Proto-Cerrado *ŋgôj’ (“water”) < (?) Proto-Jê *ŋgə̂₁j’ ~ *ŋgə̂₂j (“water”).

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Noun

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cô

  1. water
    Me cupê cô jamreara.
    They had no water./There was no water for them.
    Cô te arỳjhy jaxir.
    The water covered the rice.

Ligurian

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Noun

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cô m (please provide plural)

  1. color

Sicilian

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Preposition

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cô

  1. Contraction of cu lu (“with the”).

Slovincian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *čьto.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡sɵ/
  • Rhymes: -ɵ
  • Syllabification: cô

Conjunction

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cô

  1. introduces a subordinate clause; that; in order to
  2. so that

Particle

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cô

  1. Introduces indirect speech.
  2. as such

Pronoun

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cô

  1. interrogative pronoun; what?
  2. relative pronoun; that what..., which, that

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Vietnamese

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Sino-Vietnamese word from 姑.

Noun

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cô

  1. a paternal aunt (father's sister)
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  • In cô chú (“paternal aunt and her husband”), cô cậu (“you girls and boys”), vợ chồng (“wife and husband”), dì dượng (“maternal aunt and her husband; stepmother and stepfather”), the words for females always come first. In most other phrases, the words for males usually come first, except in certain poetic contexts such as mẹ cha (“mum and dad”) as opposed to the usual cha mẹ (“dad and mum”).
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Pronoun

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cô

  1. I/me, your paternal aunt
    Antonyms: cháu, con
  2. I/me, a woman who's (presumably) slightly younger than either of your parents
    Antonyms: cháu, con
  3. you, my paternal aunt
    Antonyms: cháu, con
  4. you, a woman who's (presumably) slightly younger than either of my parents
    Antonyms: cháu, con
  5. (familiar) you, a female who's (presumably) slightly younger than me
    Synonym: em
    Antonyms: anh, tôi
  6. (honorific) you, my young mistress, my old master's daughter
  7. (formal, chiefly in fiction or translation) you, a young adult woman
    Synonym: chị
    Antonym: tôi
  8. (unfriendly) you, my wife with whom I'm not happy
    Antonym: tôi
  9. (humorous or ironic) you, Missy or young lady
    Synonym: cô nương
    Antonym: tôi
  10. (literary) she/her, that young adult woman
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Etymology 2

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Short for cô giáo (“female teacher”).

Noun

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cô

  1. (informal) Short for cô giáo (“female teacher”).

Pronoun

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cô

  1. I/me, your older female teacher
    Antonym: em
  2. you, my older female teacher
    Antonym: em
  3. you, my or my child's female teacher who's (presumably) as old as or younger than me
    Antonym: tôi
  4. you, my child's female teacher who's (presumably) slightly older than me
    Antonym: em
  5. she/her, my/your/our female teacher

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Etymology 3

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Sino-Vietnamese word from 孤 (“lonesome”).

Pronoun

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cô

  1. (Chinese fiction, humble) I/me
    • 14th century, Luo Guanzhong Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Ch. 78; 1909 Vietnamese translation by Phan Kế Bính
      Hán Trung vương nói: - Cô kết nghĩa với Quan, Trương hai em ở vườn đào, thề cùng sống thác với nhau. Nay Vân Trường chẳng may bị hại, cô sao hưởng phú quý một mình được!
      The King of Hanzhong said: - I swore an oath of fraternal rectitude with my two younger oath-brothers Guan, Zhang in the peach garden, pledging to live and die together. Now [Guan] Yunzhang unfortunately has been maliciously murdered, how can I enjoy riches by myself?

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