gök
Swedish
/jøːk/
noun
Definitions
- cuckoo; a bird
- (slang) penis
- (colloquial) liquor, of a mouthful size
Etymology
Inherited from Old Swedish gø̄ker inherited from Old Norse gaukr (cuckoo) inherited from Proto-Germanic *gaukaz (cuckoo).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*gaukaz
Gloss
cuckoo
Concept
Semantic Field
Animals
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- gawk English
- gawker English
- gawkish English
- gawkling English
- gawksome English
- gawky English
- yeke English
- Gauch German
- Gauchheil German
- *gʰAuǵ- Proto-Indo-European
- gjøk Norwegian Bokmål
- *gaukaz Proto-Germanic
- kaffe Swedish
- kaffegök Swedish
- knäpp Swedish
- knäppgök Swedish
- skat Swedish
- skatgök Swedish
- gauk Norwegian Nynorsk
- ġēac Old English
- goke Middle English
- gowke Middle English
- ȝek Middle English
- gaukr Old Norse
- gaukur Icelandic
- geykur Faroese
- gouch Middle High German
- *gauk gmw-pro
- gø̄ker Old Swedish
- gauk Westrobothnian