cù
Gaelic (Scots)
/kuː/
noun
Definitions
- dog, hound
Etymology
Inherited from Old Irish cú (hound, dog) inherited from Primitive Irish ᚉᚒᚅᚐ inherited from Proto-Celtic *kū (hound, dog) inherited from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwṓ (dog, hound).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*ḱwṓ
Gloss
dog, hound
Concept
Semantic Field
Animals
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
犬, 狗
Emoji
🐕🦺 🐩 🐶 🐺
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- canem, canis Latin
- canis Latin
- Īnsula Canāria Latin
- Κυνικός Ancient Greek
- κύων Ancient Greek
- *h₂ébōl Proto-Indo-European
- *ḱwen- Proto-Indo-European
- *ḱwn̥tós Proto-Indo-European
- *ḱwṓ Proto-Indo-European
- *ḱwṓ- Proto-Indo-European
- *hundaz Proto-Germanic
- cú Irish
- *sǫka Proto-Slavic
- Conall Old Irish
- Conchobar Old Irish
- conamail Old Irish
- cú Old Irish
- cúán Old Irish
- doburchú Old Irish
- árchú Old Irish
- coo Manx
- *kū Proto-Celtic
- *ćwā́ Proto-Indo-Iranian
- *kō Proto-Italic
- cú Middle Irish
- *ś(w)ō Proto-Balto-Slavic
- *śun-, *śwō Proto-Balto-Slavic
- *śwō Proto-Balto-Slavic
- *ki Proto-Brythonic
- 𒆪𒉿𒀸 Hittite
- *ku Proto-Tocharian
- ᚉᚒᚅᚐ Primitive Irish
- κινούβοιλα Dacian
- se Kurdish