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語源

From Icelandic álka, from Old Norse alka (“auk”), from Proto-Germanic *alkǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁el- (“a kind of bird”). Cognate with Swedish alka (“auk”), Norwegian and Danish alke (“auk”), Swedish dialectal alla (“long-tailed duck”) (Clangula hyemalis, syn. Fuligula glacialis), Latin olor (“swan”), Ancient Greek ἐλέα (eléa, “marsh-bird”), Welsh alarch (“swan”).

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ɔːk/
• (General American) IPA: /ɔk/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA: /ɑk/
• 韻: -ɔːk, -ɑːk
• 異形同音異義語: awk; orc (non-rhotic)

名詞

auk (plural auks)

1. Any of several species of Arctic sea birds of the family Alcidae.

   Synonym: alcid

   • 2018 June 20, Louise Tickle, The Guardian‎:

     Further afield, these auks are also in dire straits: Norway has seen vertiginous crashes, with hundreds of thousands of adult puffins in the once-teeming colony of Røst struggling to fledge any chicks in recent years.

派生語

アナグラム

• Kau