kilu

• kyiluː, k·i'lū

kilu

1. water

• Leo Joachim Frachtenberg, Alsea Texts and Myths (1920)
• Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, volumes 12-14 (1987), page 25
• Yanyan Sui, The placement of second-position subject clitics in Alsea (2011)

• IPA^(key): [ˈkɪlu]

kilu

1. dative/locative singular of kilo

From Proto-Finnic [Term?], possibly the same root as in kilama (“to scream in a high-pitched voice”), kile (“a type of food made out of oatmeal”), or kala (“fish”). Cognate to Finnish kilohaili and possibly Livvi kiloi, kilu.

kilu (genitive kilu, partitive kilu)

1. sprat

kilistä +‎ -u

• IPA^(key): /ˈkilu/, [ˈk̟ilu]
• Rhymes: -ilu
• Hyphenation^(key): ki‧lu

kilu (colloquial)

1. (usually in the plural) small item, trinket

• “kilu”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

• ilku, kuli, luki

kilu (Cyrillic spelling килу)

1. accusative singular of kila