weka

See also: weką

English

Etymology

From Maori weka.

Noun

weka (plural wekas)

1. (New Zealand) The Lord Howe woodhen or woodhen, a flightless bird of New Zealand.
   • 1964, Forest and Bird (issues 151-170, page 15)

     […] riroriros would be twittering overhead, with a shy weka peeping round a tree trunk. Wekas were very common then; they were our weather forecasters. Before rain their calls were always louder and repeated more frequently.

   • 1983, Keri Hulme, The Bone People, Penguin, published 1986, page 374:

     Thin darned socks, and old old clothes. The greatcoat. A superb weka feather cloak.

Anagrams

• Wake, wake, weak

Dutch

Etymology

From Maori weka.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

weka m (plural wekas, diminutive wekaatje n)

1. woodhen, weka, Gallirallus australis

   Hypernym: ral

Further reading

• weka on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl

Maori

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *weka (“rail”). Cognate with Samoan ve'a, Tongan veka.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈweka/, [ˈwɛkɐ]

Noun

weka

1. woodhen (Gallirallus australis)

Descendants

• → Dutch: weka
• → English: weka

Further reading

• “weka” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

weka

Wikipedia ^pl

Alternative forms

• wek

Etymology

Borrowed from Austrian German Wecken.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɛ.ka/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɛka
• Syllabification: we‧ka

Noun

weka f

1. (Kraków) veka (type of pastry made of wheat flour, produced in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Poland, similar to a French baguette but wider, bigger, and fluffier, and with a smoother surface)

   Synonyms: angielka, baton, bina, bułka paryska, gryzka, kawiorka, sztangielka

Declension

Declension of weka

	singular	plural
nominative	weka	weki
genitive	weki	wek
dative	wece	wekom
accusative	wekę	weki
instrumental	weką	wekami
locative	wece	wekach
vocative	weko	weki

Further reading

• weka in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• weka in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego

Swahili

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *-béeka.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya):

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Verb

-weka (infinitive kuweka)

1. to put
2. to establish
3. to keep
4. to delay

Conjugation

Conjugation of -weka
Positive present -naweka Subjunctive -weke Negative -weki Imperative singular weka
Infinitives
Positive kuweka Negative kutoweka
Imperatives
Singular weka Plural wekeni
Tensed forms
Habitual huweka Positive past positive subject concord + -liweka Negative past negative subject concord + -kuweka
Positive present (positive subject concord + -naweka) Singular Plural 1st person ninaweka/naweka tunaweka 2nd person unaweka mnaweka 3rd person m-wa(I/II) anaweka wanaweka other classes positive subject concord + -naweka
Negative present (negative subject concord + -weki) Singular Plural 1st person siweki hatuweki 2nd person huweki hamuweki 3rd person m-wa(I/II) haweki hawaweki other classes negative subject concord + -weki
Positive future positive subject concord + -taweka Negative future negative subject concord + -taweka
Positive subjunctive (positive subject concord + -weke) Singular Plural 1st person niweke tuweke 2nd person uweke muweke 3rd person m-wa(I/II) aweke waweke other classes positive subject concord + -weke
Negative subjunctive positive subject concord + -siweke Positive present conditional positive subject concord + -ngeweka Negative present conditional positive subject concord + -singeweka Positive past conditional positive subject concord + -ngaliweka Negative past conditional positive subject concord + -singaliweka
Gnomic (positive subject concord + -aweka) Singular Plural 1st person naweka twaweka 2nd person waweka mwaweka 3rd person m-wa(I/II) aweka waweka m-mi(III/IV) waweka yaweka ji-ma(V/VI) laweka yaweka ki-vi(VII/VIII) chaweka vyaweka n(IX/X) yaweka zaweka u(XI) waweka see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) kwaweka pa(XVI) paweka mu(XVIII) mwaweka
Perfect positive subject concord + -meweka "Already" positive subject concord + -meshaweka "Not yet" negative subject concord + -jaweka "If/When" positive subject concord + -kiweka "If not" positive subject concord + -sipoweka Consecutive kaweka / positive subject concord + -kaweka Consecutive subjunctive positive subject concord + -kaweke
Object concord (indicative positive) Singular Plural 1st person -niweka -tuweka 2nd person -kuweka -waweka/-kuwekeni/-wawekeni 3rd person m-wa(I/II) -muweka -waweka m-mi(III/IV) -uweka -iweka ji-ma(V/VI) -liweka -yaweka ki-vi(VII/VIII) -kiweka -viweka n(IX/X) -iweka -ziweka u(XI) -uweka see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) -kuweka pa(XVI) -paweka mu(XVIII) -muweka Reflexive -jiweka
Relative forms General positive (positive subject concord + (object concord) + -weka- + relative marker) Singular Plural m-wa(I/II) -wekaye -wekao m-mi(III/IV) -wekao -wekayo ji-ma(V/VI) -wekalo -wekayo ki-vi(VII/VIII) -wekacho -wekavyo n(IX/X) -wekayo -wekazo u(XI) -wekao see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) -wekako pa(XVI) -wekapo mu(XVIII) -wekamo Other forms (subject concord + tense marker + relative marker + (object concord) + -weka) Singular Plural m-wa(I/II) -yeweka -oweka m-mi(III/IV) -oweka -yoweka ji-ma(V/VI) -loweka -yoweka ki-vi(VII/VIII) -choweka -vyoweka n(IX/X) -yoweka -zoweka u(XI) -oweka see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) -koweka pa(XVI) -poweka mu(XVIII) -moweka
Some forms not commonly seen in modern Standard Swahili are absent from the table. See Appendix:Swahili verbs for more information.

Derived terms

• Verbal derivations:
  • Applicative: -wekea
  • Causative: -wekesha
  • Passive: -wekwa
  • Reciprocal: -wekana
  • Stative: -wekeka

• Nominal derivations:
  • uwekaji (“placing, putting”)

Ye'kwana

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *weka (“to defecate”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [weka]

Verb

weka

1. (intransitive) to poop, to defecate

Derived terms

• wekatojo

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “weka”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎, Lyon