FromProto-Northern Jê*ŋgô(“water”) <Proto-Cerrado*ŋgôj’(“water”) < (?)Proto-Jê*ŋgə̂₁j’ ~ *ŋgə̂₂j(“water”).
cô
- water
Me cupêcô jamreara.- They had nowater./There was nowater for them.
Cô te arỳjhy jaxir.- Thewater covered the rice.
FromLatincauda.
cô f (pluralcô)
- tail
FromLatincaput.
cô m (pluralcô)
- head
Lepri, Luigi;Vitali, Daniele (2002), “cô”, inDizionario Bolognese-Italiano, Italiano-Bolognese. Dizionèri Bulgnaiṡ-Itagliàn, Itagliàn-Bulgnaiṡ, 2nd edition, Bologna: Pendragon,→ISBN
cô m (please provide plural)
- color
cô
- contraction ofcu +lu, literally“with the”
Inherited fromProto-Slavic*česo.
- IPA(key): /ˈt͡sɵ/
- Rhymes:-ɵ
- Syllabification:cô
cô
- introduces a subordinate clause;that;in order to
- so that
cô
- Introduces indirect speech.
- as such
cô
- interrogative pronoun;what?
- relative pronoun; thatwhat...,which,that
- Lorentz, Friedrich (1908), “cɵ”, inSlovinzisches Wörterbuch[1] (in German), volume 1, Saint Petersburg:ОРЯС ИАН,page127
- Lorentz, Friedrich (1908), “cʉ̀ɵ̯”, inSlovinzisches Wörterbuch[2] (in German), volume 1, Saint Petersburg:ОРЯС ИАН,page128
Sino-Vietnamese word from姑.
cô
- apaternal aunt(father's sister)
- Incôchú(“paternal aunt and her husband”),côcậu(“you girls and boys”),vợchồng(“wife and husband”),dìdượng(“maternal aunt and her husband; stepmother and stepfather”), the words for females always come first. In most other phrases, the words for males usually come first, except in certain poetic contexts such asmẹcha(“mum and dad”) as opposed to the usualcha mẹ(“dad and mum”).
cô
- I/me, your paternal aunt
- Antonyms:cháu,con
- I/me, awoman who's (presumably)slightlyyounger than either of yourparents
- Antonyms:cháu,con
- you, my paternal aunt
- Antonyms:cháu,con
- you, a woman who's (presumably) slightly younger than either of my parents
- Antonyms:cháu,con
- (familiar) you, afemale who's (presumably) slightly younger than me
- Synonym:em
- Antonyms:anh,tôi
- (honorific) you, my young mistress, my old master's daughter
- (formal, chiefly in fiction or translation) you, ayoung adult woman
- Synonym:chị
- Antonym:tôi
- (unfriendly)you, mywife with whom I'm nothappy
- Antonym:tôi
- (humorous or ironic)you,Missy oryoung lady
- Synonym:cô nương
- Antonym:tôi
- (literary)she/her, that young adult woman
short forcô giáo(“femaleteacher”)
cô
- (informal)short forcô giáo(“femaleteacher”)
cô
- I/me, your older female teacher
- Antonym:em
- you, my older female teacher
- Antonym:em
- you, my or my child's female teacher who's (presumably) as old as or younger than me
- Antonym:tôi
- you, my child's female teacher who's (presumably) slightly older than me
- Antonym:em
- she/her, my/your/our female teacher
Sino-Vietnamese word from孤(“lonesome”).
cô
- (Chinese fiction, humble)I/me
- 14th century,Luo GuanzhongRomance of the Three Kingdoms, Ch. 78;1909 Vietnamese translation by Phan Kế Bính
Hán Trung vương nói: -Cô kết nghĩa với Quan, Trương hai em ở vườn đào, thề cùng sống thác với nhau. Nay Vân Trường chẳng may bị hại,cô sao hưởng phú quý một mình được!- TheKing of Hanzhong said: -I swore an oath of fraternal rectitude with my two younger oath-brothersGuan,Zhang in the peach garden, pledging to live and die together. Now [Guan] Yunzhang unfortunately has been maliciously murdered, how canI enjoy riches by myself?
cô
- Sino-Vietnamese reading of孤
