aukn.

Brit.

/ɔːk/, U.S.

/ɔk/,

/ɑk/

Forms: 1600s– auk, 1700s alk, 1700s–1800s awk; also Scottish 1800s– oke.

Origin: Probably a borrowing from early Scandinavian.

Etymology: Probably the reflex of an unattested borrowing < early Scandinavian (compare Old Icelandic álka , Norwegian alke razorbill), perhaps < the same Indo-European base (with velar suffix; compare hawk n.¹) as classical Latin olor swan (see olour n.), probably originally imitative of the bird's cry.Earlier currency of this word may be suggested by the following quot., which appears to show a misprint for auckies , which could be a derivative (with -y suffix⁶) of the bird name:1637 T. Morton New Eng. Canaan i. iii. 23 An Island there [sc. in Massachusetts Bay], now called Peddocks Island..(where many wilde Anckies [sic] haunted that time which hee thought had been tame). Compare post-classical Latin alca , alka (1605 or earlier). The originally West Norse word was later also borrowed into other Scandinavian languages (compare Swedish alka , Danish alke (both first half of the 18th cent.)), and thence into scientific Latin as a genus name (Alca : Linnaeus Systema Naturae (ed. 10, 1758) I. 130), and into other Germanic languages (compare Dutch alk , German Alk (both late 18th cent.)). Compare earlier penguin n. 2.

Any seabird of the family Alcidae, comprising diving birds native to the northern hemisphere, typically having stocky bodies with short wings, legs, and tail, webbed feet, and predominantly black and white plumage; (chiefly with distinguishing word) any of various species of this family.In early use: spec. the razorbill, Alca torda (later also called razorbill auk, razor-billed auk).great auk, little auk, etc.: see the first element.

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1673 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Words 92 The Rasor-bill: Auk or Murre.

1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis i. iii. 72 The Guillemot... He's like the Auk, but bigger.

1710 R. Sibbald Hist. Fife & Kinross ii. iii. 48 Alka Hoieri: Our People call it the Marrot, the Auk or Razor-Bill.

1778 G. White Let. 7 Aug. in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 239 Divers and auks walk as if fettered.

1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 17 The alks build upon rocks.

1831 J. Rennie Montagu's Ornithol. Dict. (ed. 2) 188 Gairfowl, a name for the Awk.

1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. xxiv. 320 Wounded awks.

1866 T. Edmondston Etymol. Gloss. Shetland & Orkney Dial. 4 Auk, the common guillemot.

1922 N. Haskell Amer. in Spitzbergen I. i. vii. 107 We have here a colony of auks or roach (Alle alle) the smallest species of the auks found in this region.

1954 J. M. M. Fisher & R. M. Lockley Sea-birds vii. 173 But gannets, petrels and auks—birds clumsy on land—have no distraction display.

1985 C. M. Perrins & A. L. A. Middleton Encycl. Birds 207 In the North Pacific there are at least six plankton-feeding auk species.

2005 Canad. Geographic Sept. 83/1 More than 80 percent of the oiled seabirds that wash ashore are auks.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	auk
释义	aukn. Brit. /ɔːk/, U.S. /ɔk/, /ɑk/ Forms: 1600s– auk, 1700s alk, 1700s–1800s awk; also Scottish 1800s– oke. Origin: Probably a borrowing from early Scandinavian. Etymology: Probably the reflex of an unattested borrowing < early Scandinavian (compare Old Icelandic álka , Norwegian alke razorbill), perhaps < the same Indo-European base (with velar suffix; compare hawk n.¹) as classical Latin olor swan (see olour n.), probably originally imitative of the bird's cry.Earlier currency of this word may be suggested by the following quot., which appears to show a misprint for auckies , which could be a derivative (with -y suffix⁶) of the bird name:1637 T. Morton New Eng. Canaan i. iii. 23 An Island there [sc. in Massachusetts Bay], now called Peddocks Island..(where many wilde Anckies [sic] haunted that time which hee thought had been tame). Compare post-classical Latin alca , alka (1605 or earlier). The originally West Norse word was later also borrowed into other Scandinavian languages (compare Swedish alka , Danish alke (both first half of the 18th cent.)), and thence into scientific Latin as a genus name (Alca : Linnaeus Systema Naturae (ed. 10, 1758) I. 130), and into other Germanic languages (compare Dutch alk , German Alk (both late 18th cent.)). Compare earlier penguin n. 2. Any seabird of the family Alcidae, comprising diving birds native to the northern hemisphere, typically having stocky bodies with short wings, legs, and tail, webbed feet, and predominantly black and white plumage; (chiefly with distinguishing word) any of various species of this family.In early use: spec. the razorbill, Alca torda (later also called razorbill auk, razor-billed auk).great auk, little auk, etc.: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Alcidae (auks) > [noun] > member of (auk) marrot1647 auk1673 parrotbill1778 alcid1885 puffin1885 1673 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Words 92 The Rasor-bill: Auk or Murre. 1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis i. iii. 72 The Guillemot... He's like the Auk, but bigger. 1710 R. Sibbald Hist. Fife & Kinross ii. iii. 48 Alka Hoieri: Our People call it the Marrot, the Auk or Razor-Bill. 1778 G. White Let. 7 Aug. in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 239 Divers and auks walk as if fettered. 1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 17 The alks build upon rocks. 1831 J. Rennie Montagu's Ornithol. Dict. (ed. 2) 188 Gairfowl, a name for the Awk. 1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. xxiv. 320 Wounded awks. 1866 T. Edmondston Etymol. Gloss. Shetland & Orkney Dial. 4 Auk, the common guillemot. 1922 N. Haskell Amer. in Spitzbergen I. i. vii. 107 We have here a colony of auks or roach (Alle alle) the smallest species of the auks found in this region. 1954 J. M. M. Fisher & R. M. Lockley Sea-birds vii. 173 But gannets, petrels and auks—birds clumsy on land—have no distraction display. 1985 C. M. Perrins & A. L. A. Middleton Encycl. Birds 207 In the North Pacific there are at least six plankton-feeding auk species. 2005 Canad. Geographic Sept. 83/1 More than 80 percent of the oiled seabirds that wash ashore are auks. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1673
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