niko

See also: Niko and Níko

Hanunoo

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ni-ku (“1sg. genitive; my; by me”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /niˈku/ [niˈko]
• Rhymes: -u
• Syllabification: ni‧ko

Pronoun

nikó (Hanunoo spelling ᜨᜲᜣᜳ)

1. by me
2. of me
3. my

See also

Hanunoo personal pronouns

Person	Number	Direct	Indirect	Oblique
First	singular	ako	niko	kangko, kang
	plural inclusive	kita	nita	kanta
	plural exclusive	kami	nimi	kanmi
Second	singular	kawo, ka	nimo	kanmo
	plural	kamo	niyo	kanyo
Third	singular	siya	niya	kanya
	plural	sida	nida	kanda

Further reading

• Conklin, Harold C. (1953) Hanunóo-English Vocabulary (University of California Publications in Linguistics), volume 9, London, England: University of California Press, →OCLC, page 198
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*-ku”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

Japanese

Romanization

niko

1. Rōmaji transcription of にこ

Maori

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *niko (“to go in circles” — compare with Samoan niʻo “to twirl”) variant of *liko₂ (compare with Samoan liʻo “circle” and liʻoliʻo “to encircle, to surround”) from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *likaw (“curve, bend, winding” — compare with Malay liku, lekuk and lengkuk “bend, curve (of roads, rivers)”, Iban likaw, Central Dusun hikou, and Tagalog líkaw) (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

niko

1. to coil, to form bights in ropes
2. to go around

   Synonym: pokai

Noun

niko

1. cabbage - alternative form of nīko

Derived terms

• nīko
• tāniko
• whakaniko

 

Further reading

• Williams, Herbert William (1917) “niko”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 258
• “niko” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• nȉtko (Croatia)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *nikъto. By surface analysis, ni- +‎ ko.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nîko/
• Hyphenation: ni‧ko

Pronoun

nȉko (Cyrillic spelling ни̏ко)

1. no one, nobody

   Synonyms: (Kajkavian) nikdo; (Kajkavian) nigdo

Declension

Declension of niko

	singular/plural
nominative	nȉko
genitive	nȉkog(a)
dative	nȉkom(u/e)
accusative	nȉkog(a)
vocative	-
locative	nȉkom(e/u)
instrumental	nȉkim

Swahili

Verb

niko

1. first-person singular positive degree present of -wako (“I am (around there)”)