co
See also: Appendix:Variations of "co" and со
English
Pronunciation
- (US) enPR: kō, IPA(key): /koʊ/
Pronoun
co (third-person singular, gender-neutral, reflexive coself)
- (neologism, nonstandard) they (singular). Gender-neutral subject pronoun, coordinate with gendered pronouns he and she.
- 1983, Ingrid Komar, Living the Dream: A Documentary Study of Twin Oaks Community
- 1996, Brett Beemyn, Mickey Elianon, Queer studies: a lesbian, gay, bisexual, & transgender anthology, page 74:
- At the very least, an individual might have to use different terms to describe coself in a heterosexual context than co uses in a sexual minority context [...]
- 2004 April 1, "Pieira dos Lobos" (username), "Fern's Story two", alt.magick.serious, Usenet:
- A youngster of my own introduction had been rejected by an object of preadolescent craving and had killed coself by leaping at the ceiling of co's quarters. Co was a rising Large Game star, her spring was powerful, our gravity flux was low - co's head struck the surface with enough force to kill on impact.
- (neologism, nonstandard) them (singular). Gender-neutral object pronoun, coordinate with gendered pronouns him and her.
See also
- other attested and proposed gender-neutral pronouns
Czech
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *čьto, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷid, *kʷis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t͡so/
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Conjunction
co
Declension
Dumbea
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /soː/
References
- Greenhill, S.J., Blust. R, & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.
Esperanto
Pronunciation
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Fijian
Galician
Kurdish
Alternative forms
Derived terms
Alternative forms
Ladin
Lower Sorbian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t͡sɔ/
Etymology 1
From Proto-Slavic *čьto, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷid, *kʷis.
Declension
Etymology 2
Inflected form of kśěś.
Norman
Etymology 1
From Old French colp, coup, from Vulgar Latin *colpus, from Classical Latin colaphus (“blow with the fist; cuff”), from Ancient Greek κόλαφος (kólaphos, “blow, slap”).
Alternative forms
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From Old French coq, coc.
Derived terms
- co journieaux
Etymology 3
From Old French col, from Latin collum (“neck”).
Old Irish
Usage notes
Is followed by the dependent form of the verb, which is neither nasalized nor lenited.
Conjunction
co (triggers eclipsis; followed by the prototonic or conjunct form of a verb; may be followed by an infixed pronoun)
- until
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 21c22
- ní fitir cid muntar nime conidro·foilsigsetar apstil doib
- not even heaven’s household knew it until the apostles had revealed it to them
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 21c22
- so that
Polish
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *čьto, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷid, *kʷis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t͡sɔ/
audio (file)
Declension
Preposition
co
- Used together with a noun to indicate how often something happens.
- co miesiąc ― every month
Related terms
- (prefix) co-
Romansch
Spanish
Venetian
Alternative forms
Vietnamese
Noun
co
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