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===Etymology 3===

====Pronunciation====
{{IPA|/ˈuː/|lang=en}}, {{a|unstressed}} {{IPA|/u/|lang=en}}

====Pronoun====
{{en-pron|desc=third-person singular, genderless}}

# {{lb|en|obsolete|or|dialectal}} [[He]]. [[She]]. [[It]].
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Revision as of 21:20, 19 December 2016

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ou"

English

Etymology 1

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Hawaiian ʻōʻū

Pronunciation

Noun

ou (plural ous)

  1. A probably extinct species of Hawaiian honeycreeper, Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template..
Translations

Etymology 2

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Afrikaans ou, probably from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Dutch ouwe (“old man”)

Pronunciation

Noun

ou (plural ous or ouens)

  1. (South Africa, colloquial) A fellow, guy, bloke. [from 20th c.]
    • 1978, André Brink, Rumours of Rain, Vintage 2000, p. 292:
      “They're the same good and solid ous they'd been before. Because they managed not to think.”

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

(deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA(key): /ˈuː/, Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "unstressed" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA(key): /u/

Pronoun

ou (third-person singular, genderless)

  1. (obsolete or dialectal) He. She. It.

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Afrikaans

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Probably from ouwe, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Dutch oude

Noun

ou (plural ouens or ous)

  1. A old fellow, guy, bloke.

Etymology 2

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Dutch ouwe.

Adjective

ou

  1. Template:attributive of

Aneme Wake

Noun

ou

  1. cloud

Aromanian

Etymology 1

From Latin ovum. Compare Daco-Romanian ou.

Noun

ou n (plural oauã)

  1. egg

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From a Vulgar Latin *ovō, from Latin ovum.

Verb

ou (past participle uoatã)

  1. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Alternative form of oauã I lay an egg (like a hen).

Bonggi

Pronoun

ou

  1. I

References

Catalan

Etymology

From Lua error in Module:etymology at line 156: Old Occitan (pro) is not set as an ancestor of Catalan (ca) in Module:languages/data/2. The ancestor of Catalan is Old Catalan (roa-oca)., from Latin ōvum, from Proto-Italic *ōwom, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm (“egg”) Compare Occitan uòu, French œuf, Spanish huevo, Italian uovo, Romanian ou.

Pronunciation

Noun

ou m (plural ous)

  1. egg

French

Etymology

From Old French ou, from Latin aut.[1]

Pronunciation

Conjunction

ou

  1. or
  2. either
    Ou il est fou ou il est bête - Either he's mad or he's stupid

See also

References

  1. ^ Lua error in Module:languages/errorGetBy at line 16: Please specify a language or etymology language code in the parameter "1"; the value "French" is not valid (see Wiktionary:List of languages).

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese ou, from Latin aut.

Conjunction

ou

  1. or

Haitian Creole

Etymology

Possibly from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French vous (“you”)

Pronoun

ou

  1. you (singular)

Hawaiian

Pronoun

ou

  1. yours, your Second person singular possessive, o-type.

Usage notes

  • Used after negatives, numbers, locative nouns, certain prepositions, and after nouns preceded by an article or a k-determiner.

Italian

Interjection

ou

  1. (usually impolite) Used to get someone's attention; oi, hey.
    Ou, mi stai ascoltando? - Oi, are you listening to me?

Japanese

Romanization

ou

  1. Rōmaji transcription of おう

Mandarin

Romanization

ou

  1. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Nonstandard spelling of ōu.
  2. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Nonstandard spelling of óu.
  3. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Nonstandard spelling of ǒu.
  4. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Nonstandard spelling of òu.

Usage notes

  • 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.

Mauritian Creole

Alternative forms

Etymology

Probably from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French vous; compare Haitian Creole ou.

Pronoun

ou (informal to)

  1. you (second-person singular formal personal pronoun)

See also

Mauritian Creole personal pronouns
singular plural
1st person mo
mwa (objective) 		nou
2nd person to (informal), ou (formal)
twa (objective) 		zot
3rd person li zot, bann-la

Middle French

Preposition

ou

  1. within
    • 15th century, Chronique de Charles VII roi de France par Jean Chartier, Tomé II, edited by Vallet de Viriville. Paris: P. Jannet, 1858, page 18.
      Discord et division ou royaulme de Castile.
      Discord and division within the kingdom of Castile

Norman

Etymology

From Old French ou, from Latin aut.

Conjunction

ou

  1. (Guernsey) or

Old French

Etymology 1

From Latin aut.

Conjunction

ou

  1. or

Descendants

  • French: ou

Etymology 2

From Latin ubi.

Adverb

ou

  1. where
    • 11th century, La Vie de Saint Alexis, BNF manuscript 19525
      Dona as povres ou qu'il les pout trouver
      He gave to the poor wherever he could find them

Descendants

  • Middle French: òu

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese ou, from Latin aut.

Pronunciation

Conjunction

Template:pt-con

  1. or (connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc. each of which could make a passage true)
    Escolhe a opção um ou a opção dois.
    Choose option one or option two.
  2. or (connects two equivalent names)
    Mianmar, ou Birmânia, fica na Ásia.
    Myanmar, or Burma, is located in Asia.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see [[Citations:ou#Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language code; the value "{{{1}}}" is not valid. See WT:LOL.|Citations:ou]].

Synonyms

  • (connects equivalent names): também

Conjunction

Template:pt-con

  1. either … or

Noun

ou m (plural s)

  1. (logic) inclusive or (connective which yields true when at least one of the predicates is true)

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see [[Citations:ou#Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language code; the value "{{{1}}}" is not valid. See WT:LOL.|Citations:ou]].

Derived terms

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin ōvum, from Proto-Italic *ōwom, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm (“egg”).

Pronunciation

Noun

ou n (plural ouă)

  1. egg
  2. (slang, usually plural, referring to the testicles) ball(s)

Declension

Declension of ou
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) ou oul (niște) ouă ouăle
genitive/dative (unui) ou oului (unor) ouă ouălor
vocative oule ouălor

Sardinian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin ovum. Compare Italian uovo, Catalan ou.

Noun

ou

  1. (Campidanese) egg

Saterland Frisian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Frisian of, af, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *ab (“off, away”). More at off.

Preposition

ou

  1. off; away

Sicilian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin ovum (“egg”).

Pronunciation

Noun

ou m (plural ova)

  1. egg

Suena

Noun

ou

  1. water

References

  • Transnewguinea.org, citing McElhanon and Voorhoeve (1970), Smallhorn (2011) and Wilson (1969)

Tongan

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Polynesian *au, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Oceanic *(i-)au, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *(i-)aku, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *(i-)aku, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(i-)aku, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Austronesian *(i-)aku.

Alternative forms

Pronoun

ou

  1. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Alternative form of au

Zia

Noun

ou

  1. water

References

  • Transnewguinea.org, citing McElhanon and Voorhoeve (1970), Smallhorn (2011) and Wilson (1969)
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