lu

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Translingual

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Symbol

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lu

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Luba-Katanga.

English

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Etymology 1

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Noun

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lu (uncountable)

  1. Archaic form of loo (card game).

Verb

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lu (third-person singular simple present lus, present participle luing, simple past and past participle lued)

  1. Archaic form of loo (beat at card game).

Etymology 2

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A romanization of Chinese (, route)

Noun

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lu (usually uncountable, plural lus)

  1. (historical) Synonym of route or circuit: an administrative division of imperial China.

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Anagrams

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Äiwoo

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Noun

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lu

  1. life

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Asturian

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Etymology

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From Vulgar Latin *illu, from Latin illum, accusative of ille. Compare Spanish lo.

Pronoun

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lu, la f, lo n

  1. Third-person singular direct object; him, it

Bakung

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Etymology

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From Proto-Kenyah *lu, from Proto-North Sarawak, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qahəlu, from Proto-Austronesian *qaSəlu (pestle).

Noun

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lu

  1. pestle for pounding rice

References

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  • Smith, A. (2017) The Languages of Borneo: A Comprehensive Classification, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa

Basque

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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lu inan

  1. pussy, vagina

Declension

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Betawi

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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from Hokkien ().

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /lu/
    • Audio:(file)
  • IPA(key): /luh/
  • IPA(key): /əˈlu/ (extended form)
  • IPA(key): /əˈluh/ (extended form)
  • Hyphenation: lu

Pronoun

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lu

  1. you (personal pronoun)
  2. you (direct object of a verb)
  3. you (object of a preposition)
  4. you (indirect object of a verb)
  5. your (belonging to me)

Usage notes

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  • Used mainly in a common situation, especially between friends or by someone older in terms of speaking to a younger person. As for the usage by a younger person speaking with an older person, there is no agreement whether it is appropriate to do so or not: some would regard it as inappropriate, some other would not. Grijns (1991) noted that some Batavians use this pronoun when speaking to God.

Synonyms

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References

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  • Grijns, C.D. (1991) Jakarta Malay, volume 2, Leiden: KITLV Press, page 122.

Chinese

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For pronunciation and definitions of lu – see (“Cantonese particle”).
(This term is a variant form of ).

Cornish

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Etymology

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From Old Cornish luu, from Proto-Brythonic *llʉɣ, from Proto-Celtic *slougos.

Noun

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lu m (plural luyow)

  1. army, troop, fleet

Corsican

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Etymology

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From Latin ille (that), from Old Latin olle (that). Cognates include Italian lo (him), il (the) and French le (the, him).

Article

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lu

  1. Archaic form of u.

Pronoun

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lu

  1. Archaic form of u.

References

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  • lu” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa
  • u, lu” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

Danish

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Verb

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lu

  1. imperative of lue

French

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Pronunciation

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Participle

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lu (feminine lue, masculine plural lus, feminine plural lues)

  1. past participle of lire

Friulian

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Etymology

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From Vulgar Latin *illu, from Latin illum. Compare Italian lo.

Pronoun

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lu (third person masculine direct object)

  1. him
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Hausa

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Pronunciation

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Ideophone

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  1. swinging motion

Ido

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Etymology

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Back-formation from ilu (he, him), elu (she, her) and olu (it).

Pronunciation

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Pronoun

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lu (plural li)

  1. Third-person singular pronoun for referents of any gender; he/him, she/her, it or that
    Me ne savas ka lu es viro o muliero.
    I don't know if he/she is a man or a woman.

Usage notes

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Lu is widely used in Ido, and not exclusively when a gendered possessive determiner is inappropriate, but also in order to avoid repetition depending on the user's preferences.

Derived terms

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  • li (they, them)
  • lua
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  • ilu (he, him) (masculine)
  • elu (she, her) (feminine)
  • olu (it) (neuter)

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Indonesian

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Etymology

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From Betawi Udik lo (you), from Hokkien (). Doublet of lo.

Pronoun

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lu

  1. (chiefly Jakarta, slang) Second-person singular pronoun: you, your, yours

Synonyms

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Indonesian informal second-person pronouns:

  • anta (informal, mainly used by Muslim community)
  • antum (informal, mainly used by Muslim community)
  • coen (slang, East Java)
  • ente (informal, mainly used by Betawi ethnic group)
  • kamu (intimate)
  • ko, kowe (informal, Java)
  • kon, koen (colloquial, East Java)
  • lu, lo, loe, elu (informal, mainly used by Betawi ethnic group)
  • mika, mike (informal, Eastern Sumatra)

Iranun

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *luheq.

Noun

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lu

  1. tear

Japanese

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Romanization

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lu

  1. Rōmaji transcription of る゚
  2. Rōmaji transcription of ル゚

Jingpho

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Burmese လှူ (hlu).

Verb

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lu

  1. to offer
  2. to donate

References

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  • Kurabe, Keita (2016 December 31) “Phonology of Burmese loanwords in Jinghpaw”, in Kyoto University Linguistic Research[1], volume 35, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 91–128

Linngithigh

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Pronoun

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lu

  1. he/she/it (third-person singular nominative pronoun)

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Malay

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Hokkien ().

Pronoun

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lu (Jawi spelling لو)

  1. you
    Synonyms: kamu, engkau, kau, awak, anda, hang
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Malay personal pronouns
singular plural
1st person standard sayaساي
akuاکو, ku-كو- (informal/towards God)
-ku-كو (informal possessive)
hambaهمبا (dated)
kamiکامي (exclusive)
kita orangكيت اورڠ (informal exclusive)
kitaکيت (inclusive)
royal betaبيتا
2nd person standard kamuکامو
andaاندا (formal)
engkauاڠکاو, kau-كاو- (informal/towards God)
awakاوق (friendly/older towards younger)
-mu-مو (possessive)
awak semuaاوق سموا
kamu semuaكامو سموا
kalianکالين (informal)
kau orangكاو اورڠ (informal)
royal tuankuتوانكو
3rd person standard diaدي
iaاي
beliauبلياو (honorific)
-nya (possessive)
merekaمريک
dia orangدي اورڠ (informal)
royal bagindaبݢيندا

Etymology 2

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Clipping of dulu.

Adverb

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lu (Jawi spelling لو)

  1. (colloquial) Alternative form of dulu.
    Aku gerak lu.
    I'm going first.

Further reading

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Mandarin

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Romanization

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lu (lu5lu0, Zhuyin ˙ㄌㄨ)

  1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of

lu

  1. Nonstandard spelling of .
  2. Nonstandard spelling of .
  3. Nonstandard spelling of .
  4. Nonstandard spelling of .
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Usage notes

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  • Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Muong

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Etymology

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From Proto-Vietic *m-luː, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *bluuʔ.

A great number of Muong lects, as well as Vietnamese, had replaced this native etymology with Sinitic (tuǐ).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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lu

  1. (Mường Bi) thigh
    Synonym: tùi

Neapolitan

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Pronunciation

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Pronoun

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lu

  1. Alternative form of 'u

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Noun

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lu m

  1. (dialectal) alternative form of lur (lur, trumpet)

References

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  • Ivar Aasen (1850) “Lu”, in Ordbog over det norske Folkesprog[2] (in Danish), Oslo: Samlaget, published 2000

Old French

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Reduced form of Latin lupus.

Noun

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lu oblique singularm (oblique plural lus, nominative singular lus, nominative plural lu)

  1. wolf

Sassarese

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Alternative forms

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  • l' (apocopic, before a vowel sound)
  • -llu (pronoun, enclitic)
  • -ru (pronoun, enclitic)

Etymology

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From Vulgar Latin *(il)lu, from Latin illum, accusative of ille (that).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /lu/, (after a vowel) /ru/

Article

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lu m sg (plural li, feminine la)

Sassarese definite articles
singular plural
masculine lu/l' li/l'
feminine la/l'
  1. the (masculine singular)

Usage notes

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  • Becomes l' before a vowel.

Pronoun

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lu m (plural li, feminine la)

  1. (followed by chi) that
    Di curori vi ni so umbè. Ca è lu chi tu priferi?
    There are lots of colors. Which one do you prefer?
    (literally, “Of colors there are a lot. Which one is that which you prefer?”)
  2. him (accusative)
    Lu cunnosci?Do you know him?
  3. it (accusative)
    Abà ti lu digguNow I'll tell you (literally, “Now I tell it to you”)

References

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  • Rubattu, Antoninu (2006) Dizionario universale della lingua di Sardegna, 2nd edition, Sassari: Edes

Sicilian

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Etymology 1

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From the apheresis of Vulgar Latin *illu, from Latin illum, from ille.

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Article

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lu m sg (f la, plural li)

  1. (masculine singular definite article) the
    Synonym: u
Usage notes
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  • This article is nowadays an obsolete variant, unlike its illiquid counterpart u. It is currently used only in some restricted areas where it is still withheld in conversational communications.
  • Today it is mostly used in crystallized contexts, such as singing, poetry or sayings and proverbs. In all these cases this definite article is more euphonetic than the variants, now predominant, which have undergone the lenition of the initial liquid consonant.
  • Its use is however almost undisputed before nouns (or nominalized forms of other parts of speech, most often adjectives) that begin with vowels. In this case the form is an apocopic l'. Otherwise, illiquid definite articles are phonetically absorbed by the following noun. I.e: l'arancinu (liquid) and ârancinu (illiquid).
Inflection
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Sicilian articles
Masculine singular definite article Feminine singular definite article Masculine and feminine plural definite article
Definite articles (liquid) lu la li
Definite articles (illiquid) u a i
Definite articles nu
(also: un,'n)
na

Etymology 2

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From the apheresis of Vulgar Latin *illu, from Latin illum, from ille.

Alternative forms

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  • -lu (enclitic)
  • u (illiquid form)

Pronunciation

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Pronoun

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lu m sg (plural li, female la)

  1. (accusative) him
    Synonym: u
    Lu canusci?Do you know him?
  2. (accusative) it, this or that thing
    Synonym: u
    Quannu ti lu desi.When I gave it to you.
Usage notes
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  • This pronoun is now an obsolete variant. It is currently used only in some restricted areas where it is still withheld in conversational communications.
  • Today it is mostly used in crystallized contexts, such as singing, poetry or sayings and proverbs. In all these cases this definite article is more euphonetic than the variants, now predominant, which have undergone the lenition of the initial liquid consonant.
  • Its use is however almost undisputed before words that begin with vowels. In this case the form is an apocopic l'.

Sumerian

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Romanization

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lu

  1. Romanization of 𒇻 (lu)

Tocharian A

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Etymology

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From Proto-Tocharian *luwā-, from Proto-Indo-European *luh₂eh₂, from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂w- (to seize, gain). Compare Tocharian B luwo. Related to Old Church Slavonic ловъ (lovŭ, hunt), Serbo-Croatian lȏv (chase; game animal); compare also Ancient Greek λέων (léōn, lion).

Noun

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lu

  1. animal

Veps

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Etymology

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From Proto-Finnic *luu, from Proto-Uralic *luwe.

Noun

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lu

  1. bone

Inflection

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Inflection of lu (inflection type 13/ma)
nominative sing. lu
genitive sing. lun
partitive sing. lud
partitive plur. luid
singular plural
nominative lu lud
accusative lun lud
genitive lun luiden
partitive lud luid
essive-instructive lun luin
translative luks luikš
inessive lus luiš
elative luspäi luišpäi
illative luhu luihe
adessive lul luil
ablative lulpäi luilpäi
allative lule luile
abessive luta luita
comitative lunke luidenke
prolative ludme luidme
approximative I lunno luidenno
approximative II lunnoks luidennoks
egressive lunnopäi luidennopäi
terminative I luhusai luihesai
terminative II lulesai luilesai
terminative III lussai
additive I luhupäi luihepäi
additive II lulepäi luilepäi

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References

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  • Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “кость”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎[3], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

Vietnamese

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Etymology

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Compare Khmer លូ (luu, large jar).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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(classifier cái) lu

  1. big vase used to contain water

Welsh

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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lu

  1. Soft mutation of llu.

Mutation

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Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
llu lu unchanged unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Zazaki

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Alternative forms

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Noun

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lu

  1. fox (Vulpes vulpes)

Zou

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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lu

  1. head

References

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  • Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 42