cù

See also: Appendix:Variations of "cu"

Mandarin

Romanization

cù (cu⁴, Zhuyin ㄘㄨˋ)

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Scottish Gaelic

cù

Etymology

From Old Irish cú (“dog”), from Primitive Irish ᚉᚒᚅᚐ (cuna), from Proto-Celtic *kū, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwṓ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kuː/

Noun

cù m (genitive singular coin, plural coin)

1. dog, hound

Usage notes

• The plural genitive forms are chon (without article) and nan con.

Derived terms

• cù an òtraich (“mongrel dog”)
• cù-allaidh, cù-choille, cu-faol, cù-fàsach, cù-fàsaich, cù-gearr (“wolf”)
• cù-chaorach (“sheepdog, shepherd's collie”)
• cù-cnàmha (“louse”)
• cù-donn (“otter”)
• cù-dubh (“bloodhound”)
• cù-dur (“otter”)
• cù-eunaich (“pointer, setter, spaniel, retriever”)
• cù-fada, cù-fionn, cù-gorm, cù-gortach (“greyhound”)
• cù-feòladair (“bulldog”, literally “flesher's dog”)
• cù-fionn (“moth”)
• cù-ghearraidh (“critic, backbiter”)
• cù-lomna (“tied dog”)
• cù-lorgaidh (“beagle”)
• cù-luirge (“beagle, bloodhound, gaze-hound”)

 

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Lenition
cù	chù
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 cú”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ku˨˩]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [kʊw˦˩]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [kʊw˨˩]
• Homophone: Cù

Verb

cù • (求, 衢)

1. (Northern Vietnam) to tickle; to entice

   Synonyms: cù lét, chọc lét, thọc lét

Noun

(classifier con) cù

1. humming top, spinning top