'u

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Guaraní

[edit]

Pronunciation

[edit]

Verb

[edit]

'u (active, transitive, irregular)

  1. eat, drink

Conjugation

[edit]

Derived terms

[edit]
  • y'u (drink water)

Neapolitan

[edit]

Alternative forms

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

From lu, from Latin illum.

Pronunciation

[edit]

Pronoun

[edit]

'u

  1. him (accusative)

Coordinate terms

[edit]
Number Person Nominative Accusative Dative Reflexive Possessive Prepositional
singular first-person io (i') me mìo, mìa, mieje, meje me, méne
second-person, familiar tu te tùjo, tòja, tùoje, tòje te, téne
second-person, formal vuje ve vuósto, vósta, vuóste, vóste vuje
third-person, masculine ìsso 'o, 'u (lo, lu) 'i, 'e (li, le) se sùjo, sòja, sùoje, sòje ìsso
third-person, feminine éssa 'a (la) 'e (le) éssa
plural first-person nuje ce nuósto, nòsta, nuóste, nòste nuje
second-person, plural vuje ve vuósto, vòsta, vuóste, vòste vuje
third-person, masculine ìsse 'i, 'e (li, le) llòro se llòro (invariable) llòro
third-person, feminine llòro 'e (le)

Old Tupi

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *ʔu (to eat), from Proto-Tupian *kʔu (to speak).[1]

Pronunciation

[edit]
  • IPA(key): /ʔu/
  • Rhymes: -u
  • Hyphenation: 'u

Verb

[edit]

'u (first-person singular active indicative a'u, first-person singular negative active indicative n'a'uî, gerund 'ûabo, noun 'u) (transitive, irregular)

  1. to ingest (to take a substance into the body)
    Near-synonym: karu (to eat, intransitive)
    • c. 1583, Joseph of Anchieta, Auto de São Lourenço [Play of Saint Lawrence], Niterói, page 66; republished in Eduardo de Almeida Navarro, transl., compiled by Maria de Lourdes de Paula Martins, Teatro, 2nd edition, São Paulo: Martins Fontes, 2006, →ISBN:
      (please add the primary text of this quotation)
      [I aputu'uma t'a'u.]
      I shall eat his brains.

References

[edit]
  1. ^ Beatriz Carretta Corrêa da Silva (2010) Mawé/Awetí/Tupí-Guaraní: relações linguísticas e implicações históricas (in Portuguese), Brasília: UnB, page 408

Tarantino

[edit]

Article

[edit]

'u m sg (plural le)

  1. the

Welsh

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

Contraction of eu (their).

Pronunciation

[edit]

Usage notes

[edit]
  • Despite being written as u, the vowel here is /i̯/ in north Wales, making it homophonous with singular 'i in all varieties of the spoken language.

Determiner

[edit]

'u

  1. their (used after vowels)
    Ymwelon ni â’u hwyres nhw’n yr ysbyty.
    We visited their granddaughter in hospital.

Pronoun

[edit]

'u

  1. them (used after vowels as the direct object of a verbal noun or verb)
    Cyhuddodd fi o’u dwyn ac yna’u gwerthu.
    He/She accused me of stealing them and then selling them.
    Fe’u ceir yma o bryd i'w gilydd.
    They are found (lit. "One finds them") here occasionally.

Usage notes

[edit]
  • In formal Welsh, the contraction 'u is a valid form of eu found after mostly functional vowel-final words. In colloquial Welsh, eu is often contracted to 'u after almost any vowel-final word.
  • Pronomial 'u (and eu) can occur before any verbal noun. Before a verb, pronomial 'u is found only in formal language after certain vowel-final preverbal particles, such as fe, a and y. After certain certain vowel-final preverbal particles, such as ni, na, oni and pe, -s is used instead.
  • After the preposition i (to), the contraction changes to i’w.

Further reading

[edit]
  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “'u”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies