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ũ

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ũ U+0169, ũ
LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH TILDE
Composition:u [U+0075] + ◌̃ [U+0303]
Ũ
[U+0168]
Latin Extended-A Ū
[U+016A]

English

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Letter

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ũ

  1. (Early Modern, obsolete) The letter u with a tilde, replacing the sequence un or um.
    thũder — thunder
    trũpet — trumpet

Kamkata-viri

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Short form of ũċ, from Proto-Nuristani, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *aȷ́ʰám, from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂.[1]

Pronoun

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ũ (Northeastern)[2]

  1. I

References

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  1. ^ Halfmann, Jakob (2025). The Diversification of Indo-Iranian and the Position of the Nuristani Languages. Wiesbaden: Reichert.
  2. ^ Halfmann, Jakob (2024). A Grammatical Description of the Katë Language (Nuristani) (PhD thesis). Köln: Universität zu Köln.

Kikuyu

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Pronunciation

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Letter

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ũ (upper case Ũ)

  1. The eighteenth letter of the Kikuyu alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Middle French

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Letter

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ũ

  1. The letter u with a tilde. Used to replace the sequence un or um.
    aulcũ (aulcun) ― any
    tũber (tumber) ― to fall

Mirandese

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Pronunciation

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Letter

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ũ

  1. The letter u with a tilde. Used to indicate nasalisation
    ũaone, a (feminine)
    algũasome

Usage notes

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The letter is often written without the tilde due to the fact that it is hard to get the letter digitally. Even though it is accepted to write it without the tilde, it isn't necessarily correct to do so.

Old French

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Letter

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ũ

  1. The letter u with a tilde. Used to replace the sequence un or um.
    aucũ (aucun) ― any
    mũd (mund) ― world

Old Galician-Portuguese

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Letter

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ũ

  1. The letter u with a tilde. Used to replace the sequence un or um or to indicate the nasalisation of the vowel /u/.
    ũuone, a (masculine)
    ũaone, a (feminine)

Romagnol

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Romagnol numbers (edit)
10
 ←  0 1 2  →  10  → 
    Cardinal: un, ũ
    Ordinal: prèm

Pronunciation

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Numeral

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ũ

  1. one

References

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  • Vitali, Daniele; Pioggia, Davide (2016), Dialetti romagnoli [Romagnol dialects] (in Italian), 2 edition, Verucchio: Pazzini Stampatore Editore srl, page 28

Vietnamese

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Pronunciation

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Letter

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ũ (upper case Ũ)

  1. The letter u with the perispomene.

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