juk

See also: Juk, -juk, and -jük

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Cantonese 粥 (zuk1) or Korean 죽 (juk).

Noun

juk (uncountable)

1. Congee.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:juk.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:dim sum

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch juk.

Noun

juk (plural jukke)

1. yoke

Derived terms

• jukskei
• roerjuk

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch joc, juc, from Old Dutch *juk, from Proto-Germanic *juką, from Proto-Indo-European *yugóm. Compare German Joch, West Frisian jok, English yoke, Danish åg, Swedish ok.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ʏk

• Audio:

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Noun

juk n (plural jukken, diminutive jukje n)

1. a yoke
2. a burden; something which represses or restrains a person.

Descendants

• Negerhollands: jok

Gothic

Romanization

juk

1. Romanization of 𐌾𐌿𐌺

Lithuanian

Etymology

Compare Latvian juk. According to Ostrowski, from conflation of juõ (“especially”) +‎ kaĩ (“when”).

Particle

jùk

1. Emphatic particle; after all

Further reading

• “juk”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2024
• Vytautas Ambrazas (2006) Lithuanian Grammar, 2nd revised edition, pages 401–402
• Norbert Ostrowski (2015) “The Origin of the Lithuanian Particle »jùk«”, in Artūras Judžentis & Stephan Kessler, editor, Contributions to Morphology and Syntax. Proceedings of the 4th Greifswald University Conference on Baltic Languages‎^[1], pages 201–215

Middle Low German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jʏk/

Pronoun

jük

1. (personal pronoun, dative, accusative) Alternative form of jû.

Quechua

Quechua cardinal numbers

<  0	1	2  >
Cardinal : juk     Ordinal : hukñiqi

Alternative forms

• huk

Numeral

juk

1. one

Semai

Etymology

From Proto-Aslian *ɟuŋ (“leg, foot”), from Proto-Mon-Khmer *ɟuŋ ~ *ɟuəŋ ~ *ɟəŋ (“leg, foot”). Cognate with Khmer ជើង (cəəng), Bahnar jơ̆ng, Mon ဇိုၚ် and Vietnamese chân. Munda cognates include Santali ᱡᱟᱝᱜᱟ (jaṅga).

Noun

juk

1. (Anatomy) leg

Volapük

Noun

juk (nominative plural juks)

1. shoe

Declension

declension of juk

	singular	plural
nominative	juk	juks
genitive	juka	jukas
dative	juke	jukes
accusative	juki	jukis
vocative 1	o juk!	o juks!
predicative 2	juku	jukus

• ¹ status as a case is disputed
• ² in later, non-classical Volapük only

Derived terms

• jukel
• jukön