Of parrots, little Jack only saw ash-grayjakos, with red tails, which abounded under the trees. But thesejakos were not new to him.
1882, Rev. P. B. Power,The Home Visitor and District Companion:
Very little is known of these birds in their wild state, although they are brought to Europe in far greater numbers than any other species. We learn from Henglin that the habitat of theJako extends from the western coast of Africa deep into the heart of that continent[…]
TheJako, or gray parrot of Africa, has the capacity for speaking best developed, and the yellow-headed green parrot of Mexico stands second in the list.
count-off(the act of splitting a group of persons into a number N of smaller groups by having them call out, one by one, the numbers one through N and again until everyone has a number; also as an interjection ordering a group to do so)
“jako”, inKielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki:Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland),2004–, retrieved2023-07-02
1) obsolete *) theaccusative corresponds with either thegenitive (sg) ornominative (pl) **) thecomitative is formed by adding the suffix-ka? or-kä? to thegenitive.
Aguilar Feria, Martimiana, García Rojas, Vicente, Erickson de Hollenbach, Elena (2017)Diccionario mixteco de Magdalena Peñasco (Saꞌan Ñuu Savi) (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”;50)[2] (in Spanish),Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page53
B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “jako”, inSłownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków:IJP PAN,→ISBN
Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “jako”, inEtymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
Sławski, Franciszek (1958-1965) “jako”, inJan Safarewicz, Andrzej Siudut, editors,Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), Kraków: Towarzystwo Miłośników Języka Polskiego
According toSłownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990),jako is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 151 times in scientific texts, 69 times in news, 131 times in essays, 58 times in fiction, and 38 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 447 times, making it the 103rd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]
^Ida Kurcz (1990) “jako”, inSłownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page160
Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “jako, jak, jeko”, inSłownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
Aleksandra Wieczorek (05.04.2020) “JAKO”, inElektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
Djeca se često poskliznu i padnu kad uče hodati, ali se rijetkojako ozlijede. ―Children often slip and fall when they are learning to walk, but they rarelyseriously injure themselves.
Auto je skrenuojako udesno te skliznuo sa ceste. ―Car turnedhard to the right and skidded off the road.
U nekim borilačkim sportovima,prejako udaranje suparnika može rezultirati diskvalificiranjem. ―In some martial arts, hitting the opponenttoo hard can result in disqualification.
*) theaccusative corresponds with either thegenitive (sg) ornominative (pl) **) theterminative is formed by adding the suffix-ssaa to the shortillative (sg) or thegenitive. ***) thecomitative is formed by adding the suffix-ka to thegenitive.
