koh

See also: Koh, köh, and Köh

Hokkien
For pronunciation and definitions of koh – see 閣 (“again”).
(This term is the pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 閣).

Hungarian

Etymology

Uncertain. Perhaps a borrowing from Middle High German kuche (though this explanation has semantic issues), or possibly a back-formation from kohol (“to fabricate, trump up”) (though the opposite direction, koh + -ol, might be more likely).[1][2]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈkox]
  • Hyphenation: koh
  • Rhymes: -ox

Noun

koh (plural kohok)

  1. (archaic) Alternative form of kohó (“furnace”, a place where ore is melted to create metal)
    Synonyms: hámor, huta

Declension
Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative koh kohok
accusative kohot kohokat
dative kohnak kohoknak
instrumental kohhal kohokkal
causal-final kohért kohokért
translative kohhá kohokká
terminative kohig kohokig
essive-formal kohként kohokként
essive-modal — —
inessive kohban kohokban
superessive kohon kohokon
adessive kohnál kohoknál
illative kohba kohokba
sublative kohra kohokra
allative kohhoz kohokhoz
elative kohból kohokból
delative kohról kohokról
ablative kohtól kohoktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular		 kohé kohoké
non-attributive
possessive - plural		 kohéi kohokéi
Possessive forms of koh
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. kohom kohjaim
2nd person sing. kohod kohjaid
3rd person sing. kohja kohjai
1st person plural kohunk kohjaink
2nd person plural kohotok kohjaitok
3rd person plural kohjuk kohjaik

Derived terms

References
  1. koh in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN.  (See also its 2nd edition.)
  2. kohó in Tótfalusi, István. Magyar etimológiai nagyszótár (’Hungarian Comprehensive Dictionary of Etymology’). Budapest: Arcanum Adatbázis, 2001; Arcanum DVD Könyvtár →ISBN

Further reading
  • koh in Czuczor, Gergely and János Fogarasi: A magyar nyelv szótára (’A Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Pest: Emich Gusztáv Magyar Akadémiai Nyomdász, 1862–1874.

Seneca

Conjunction

koh

  1. and

References
  • Wallace Chafe (2014) A Grammar of the Seneca Language, University of California Press, page 149

Yucatec Maya

Alternative forms

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈkoh]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Mayan *kooh.

Alternative forms
  • co (obsolete)

Noun

koh

  1. tooth
  2. beak

References
  • Beltrán de Santa Rosa María, Pedro (1746) Arte de el idioma maya reducido a succintas reglas, y semilexicon yucateco (in Spanish), Mexico: Por la Biuda de D. Joseph Bernardo de Hogal, page 165: “Co. sssssssssssss Diente.”
  • Montgomery, John (2004) Maya-English, English-Maya (Yucatec) Dictionary & Phrasebook, New York: Hippocrene Books, Inc., →ISBN, page 62

Etymology 2

From Proto-Mayan *kOj.

Alternative forms

Noun

koh

  1. mountain lion (Puma concolor)

References
  • Beltrán de Santa Rosa María, Pedro (1746) Arte de el idioma maya reducido a succintas reglas, y semilexicon yucateco (in Spanish), Mexico: Por la Biuda de D. Joseph Bernardo de Hogal, page 176: “Leon, y Leoparde. Coh, chaccbo ay”
  • Montgomery, John (2004) Maya-English, English-Maya (Yucatec) Dictionary & Phrasebook, New York: Hippocrene Books, Inc., →ISBN, page 62
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