cucu

See also: cucú, cucù, cücü, and cu'cu'

Asturian

Etymology

From Late Latin cucus or cuccus, or Latin cuculus or Ancient Greek κόκκυξ (kókkux).

Noun

cucu m (plural cucos)

  1. cuckoo

Brunei Malay

Etymology

Cognate with Malay cucu.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃut͡ʃu/
  • Hyphenation: cu‧cu

Noun

cucu

  1. grandchild (child of someone's child)

French

Pronunciation
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Noun

cucu m (plural cucus)

  1. Alternative form of cucul

Adjective

cucu (feminine cucue, masculine plural cucus, feminine plural cucues)

  1. Alternative form of cucul

Further reading

Indonesian

Alternative forms
  • tjoetjoe (pre-1947)
  • tjutju (1947-1967)

Etymology

From Malay cucu, from Classical Malay [script needed] (cucu), from Old Malay [script needed] (cucu), attested in the Laguna Copperplate Inscription, from Proto-Malayic *cucuʔ, probably from duplication of Proto-Mon-Khmer *cuuʔ (“grandchild”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃu.t͡ʃu/
  • Rhymes: -t͡ʃu, -u
  • Hyphenation: cu‧cu

Noun

cucu

  1. grandchild (child of someone’s child)

Further reading

Interlingua

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈkuku/

Noun

cucu (plural cucus)

  1. cuckoo
  2. cuckold

Malay

Etymology

Attested in the Laguna Copperplate Inscription, 900 AD, as [script needed] (cucu).[1] From Proto-Malayic *cucuʔ.[2] Probably from duplication of Proto-Mon-Khmer *cuuʔ (“grandchild”).[3]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃut͡ʃu/
  • Rhymes: -ut͡ʃu, -t͡ʃu, -u

Noun

cucu (Jawi spelling چوچو, plural cucu-cucu, informal 1st possessive cucuku, 2nd possessive cucumu, 3rd possessive cucunya)

  1. grandchild (child of someone’s child)

Derived terms
Affixed terms and other derivations

Regular affixed derivations:

  • bercucu [stative / habitual] (beR-)
  • bercucukan [stative / habitual + causative benefactive] (beR- + -kan)

Descendants
  • Baba Malay: chuchu
  • Brunei Malay: cucu
  • Indonesian: cucu
  • → Makasar: cucu
  • → Manado Malay: cucu

References
  1. Postma, Antoon (1991) “The Laguna Copper-Plate Inscription: A Valuable Philippine Document”, in Indo-Pacific Prehistory 1990 Assn. Bulletin 11‎, volume 2 (PDF), Mansalay, Oriental Mindoro, Philippines: Mangyan Assistance and Research Center, page 169.
  2. Adelaar, K. A. (1992) Proto-Malayic: The reconstruction of its phonology and parts of its lexicon and morphology‎, Canberra: The Australian National University
  3. H. L. Shorto (2006) A Mon-Khmer comparative dictionary‎, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, →ISBN, →OCLC

Further reading

Mapudungun

Noun

cucu (Raguileo spelling)

  1. maternal grandmother
  2. grandchild

See also

References
  • Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.

Old English

Adjective

cucu

  1. Alternative form of cwic

Romanian

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Interjection

cucu

  1. coo-coo (cry made by a cuckoo)

See also

Sakizaya

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /t͡su.ˈt͡su/, [t͡su.ˈt͡su]

Noun

cucu

  1. (anatomy) breast
  2. milk
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