juuj

Marshallese

Etymology

From English shoes.

Pronunciation

• (phonetic) IPA^(key): [tʲuːtʲ], (enunciated) [tʲuutʲ]
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /tʲiwitʲ/
• Bender phonemes: {jiwij}

Noun

juuj

1. shoes
2. a hoof

References

• Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

Yucatec Maya

Alternative forms

• huh (obsolete)
• huuh (obsolete)

Etymology

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Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /hùːh/

Noun

juuj

1. iguana
2. lizard

References

• Beltrán de Santa Rosa María, Pedro (1746) Arte de el idioma maya reducido a succintas reglas, y semilexicon yucateco (in Spanish), Mexico: Por la Biuda de D. Joseph Bernardo de Hogal, page 176: “Iguana. Huh.”
• Montgomery, John (2004) Maya-English, English-Maya (Yucatec) Dictionary & Phrasebook, New York: Hippocrene Books, Inc., →ISBN, page 59