cucu
Asturian
Etymology
From Late Latin cucus or cuccus, or Latin cuculus or Ancient Greek κόκκυξ (kókkux).
Noun
cucu m (plural cucos)
- cuckoo
Brunei Malay
Etymology
Cognate with Malay cucu.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t͡ʃut͡ʃu/
- Hyphenation: cu‧cu
Noun
cucu
- grandchild (child of someone's child)
French
Noun
cucu m (plural cucus)
- Alternative form of cucul
Adjective
cucu (feminine cucue, masculine plural cucus, feminine plural cucues)
- Alternative form of cucul
Further reading
- “cucu”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃu.t͡ʃu/
- Rhymes: -t͡ʃu, -u
- Hyphenation: cu‧cu
Noun
cucu (plural cucu-cucu, first-person possessive cucuku, second-person possessive cucumu, third-person possessive cucunya)
- grandchild (child of someone’s child)
Further reading
- “cucu” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Interlingua
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkuku/
Noun
cucu (plural cucus)
- cuckoo
- 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)
- grandchild (child of someone’s child)
Derived terms
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
- → Mapudungun: cucu
References
- Postma, Antoon (1991), “The Laguna Copper-Plate Inscription: A Valuable Philippine Document”, in Indo-Pacific Prehistory 1990 Assn. Bulletin 11 (PDF), volume 2, Mansalay, Oriental Mindoro, Philippines: Mangyan Assistance and Research Center, page 169.
- Adelaar, K. A. (1992) Proto-Malayic: The reconstruction of its phonology and parts of its lexicon and morphology, Canberra: The Australian National University
- H. L. Shorto (2006) A Mon-Khmer comparative dictionary, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, →ISBN, OCLC 76699014
Further reading
- “cucu” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
Mapudungun
Noun
cucu (Raguileo spelling)
- maternal grandmother
- grandchild
See also
- kuku
References
- Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.
Romanian
Etymology
Onomatopoeic.
Interjection
cucu
- coo-coo (cry made by a cuckoo)
See also
- cuc
Sakizaya
Noun
cucu
- (anatomy) breast
- milk