kọ
Meanings
not. see kì
to emit flashes of light (as lightning); be vivid; yell; crow; to call to one at a distance; write; make marks upon; tattoo
to refuse; be unwilling; rebel; revolt
to sing
to take a quantity out of a soft mass, as with a ladle, shovel
Dialect & variants
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Same spelling, different tones
These entries fold to the same letters once tone is removed, so a tone-blind search returns all of them.
- ko(expressing the sound of a hard hollow substance)
- kóto hold together; draw together; darn; to sew; tack; baste; seam; stitch
- kònot. kò is the simple form of the negative; to gather, to take a large quantity; to plunder; rob; forage; to meet; confront; oppose; rekindle a fire by scraping together half-burnt wood
- kômaster; note; yell
- köadvise; build; educate
- kõobject
- kọ́clasp; hook; not. kò is the simple form of the negative; to learn; acquire; teach; instruct; advise; fabricate; construct; build
- níat; by; from; in; on; to. (ní is changed, for euphony, into li, l' before all vowels except i); at; to be; is; it is; ni is used in opposition to kọ, "not.
- láuall is well (an answer to the salutation, alafia kọ? “are you well?, is it peace?”)
- láwuall is well (an answer to the salutation, alafia kọ? “are you well?, is it peace?”)