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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]imu (plural imus)
- A traditional Hawaiian underground oven, consisting mainly of a hole in the ground.
See also
[edit]Anagrams
[edit]Aisi
[edit]Noun
[edit]imu
Further reading
[edit]- Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975) (as imʉ)
- Don Daniels, Magi: An Undocumented Language (in a comparative wordlist, as imu)
Ede Idaca
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Proposed to derive from Proto-Yoruboid *ímṵ́ or Proto-Yoruboid *ɪ-ŋmʊ̃́. Cognate with Igbo imi, Yoruba imú, and Igala ímọ́
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]imú
References
[edit]- Baloubi, Désiré (2005) The Morphophonemics of the Idaacha dialect of Yoruba[1], Charlotte, North Carolina: Conquering Books, , →ISBN, page 41
Estonian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From imema (“to suck”) + -u. Cognate to Finnish imu.
Noun
[edit]imu (genitive elu, partitive elu)
Declension
[edit]Declension of imu (ÕS type 17/elu, no gradation) | |||
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singular | plural | ||
nominative | imu | imud | |
accusative | nom. | ||
gen. | imu | ||
genitive | imude | ||
partitive | imu | imusid | |
illative | immu imusse |
imudesse | |
inessive | imus | imudes | |
elative | imust | imudest | |
allative | imule | imudele | |
adessive | imul | imudel | |
ablative | imult | imudelt | |
translative | imuks | imudeks | |
terminative | imuni | imudeni | |
essive | imuna | imudena | |
abessive | imuta | imudeta | |
comitative | imuga | imudega |
Synonyms
[edit]Compounds
[edit]Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From the verb imeä (“to suck”) + -u.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]imu
- suction
- undertow (flow of water returning seaward from the waves breaking on the shore)
- Aaltojen imu voi viedä lapselta jalat alta ja aiheuttaa hukkumisen.
- The undertow may sweep a child off its feet and cause drowning.
- slipstream
Declension
[edit]Inflection of imu (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | imu | imut | |
genitive | imun | imujen | |
partitive | imua | imuja | |
illative | imuun | imuihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | imu | imut | |
accusative | nom. | imu | imut |
gen. | imun | ||
genitive | imun | imujen | |
partitive | imua | imuja | |
inessive | imussa | imuissa | |
elative | imusta | imuista | |
illative | imuun | imuihin | |
adessive | imulla | imuilla | |
ablative | imulta | imuilta | |
allative | imulle | imuille | |
essive | imuna | imuina | |
translative | imuksi | imuiksi | |
abessive | imutta | imuitta | |
instructive | — | imuin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Synonyms
[edit]- (undertow): paluuvirtaus
Derived terms
[edit]compounds
- hondurasinimujalkalepakko
- imuauto
- imubetoni
- imujalkalepakko
- imujuoksutin
- imujuuri
- imukaasu
- imukala
- imukarppi
- imukeräily
- imukeränen
- imukudos
- imukuppi
- imukyky
- imukärsä
- imulasi
- imuletku
- imumato
- imuneste
- imuohjaus
- imuoja
- imupaperi
- imupilli
- imupumppu
- imuputki
- imurauhanen
- imuruoppaaja
- imuruoppaus
- imusarja
- imusolmuke
- imusolu
- imusuoni
- imutahti
- imuventtiili
- isoimujalka
- juovaimubarbi
- madagaskarinimujalka
- rasvaimu
- vedenimukyky
Further reading
[edit]- “imu”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
Hawaiian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]imu
- imu (a traditional Hawaiian underground oven, consisting mainly of a hole in the ground)
Japanese
[edit]Romanization
[edit]imu
Old Saxon
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Germanic *hiz.
Pronoun
[edit]imu (imu)
Declension
[edit]Old Saxon personal pronouns
Personal pronouns | |||||
Singular | 1. | 2. | 3. m | 3. f | 3. n |
Nominative | ik | thū | hē | siu | it |
Accusative | mī, me, mik | thī, thik | ina | sia | |
Dative | mī | thī | imu | iru | it |
Genitive | mīn | thīn | is | ira | is |
Dual | 1. | 2. | - | - | - |
Nominative | wit | git | - | - | - |
Accusative | unk | ink | - | - | - |
Dative | |||||
Genitive | unkero, unka | - | - | - | |
Plural | 1. | 2. | 3. m | 3. f | 3. n |
Nominative | wī, we | gī, ge | sia | sia | siu |
Accusative | ūs, unsik | eu, iu, iuu | |||
Dative | ūs | im | |||
Genitive | ūser | euwar, iuwer, iuwar, iuwero, iuwera | iro |
Descendants
[edit]West Makian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]imu
- (interrogative) who?
- imu ini? ― who are you?
- imu itulis mene? ― who wrote this?
- imu madadi sangaji? ― who became the sangaji?
- imu ma? ― whose? (ma here follows West Makian vowel harmony)
References
[edit]- Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours[3], Pacific linguistics
- James Collins (1982) Further Notes Towards a West Makian Vocabulary[4], Pacific linguistics
Yámana
[edit]Noun
[edit]imu
Yoruba
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Alternative forms
[edit]- ụmụ́ (Èkìtì)
Etymology
[edit]Proposed to derive from Proto-Yoruboid *ɪ́-ŋmʊ̃́. Cognate with Igbo imi and Igala ímọ́
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]imú
Derived terms
[edit]Categories:
- English terms borrowed from Hawaiian
- English terms derived from Hawaiian
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English three-letter words
- Aisi lemmas
- Aisi nouns
- Ede Idaca terms inherited from Proto-Yoruboid
- Ede Idaca terms derived from Proto-Yoruboid
- Ede Idaca terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ede Idaca lemmas
- Ede Idaca nouns
- idd:Body parts
- idd:Anatomy
- idd:Face
- Estonian terms suffixed with -u
- Estonian lemmas
- Estonian nouns
- Estonian elu-type nominals
- Finnish terms suffixed with -u
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/imu
- Rhymes:Finnish/imu/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- Finnish terms with usage examples
- Finnish valo-type nominals
- Finnish three-letter words
- Hawaiian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Hawaiian lemmas
- Hawaiian nouns
- Japanese non-lemma forms
- Japanese romanizations
- Old Saxon terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Old Saxon terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Old Saxon lemmas
- Old Saxon pronouns
- West Makian terms with IPA pronunciation
- West Makian lemmas
- West Makian adverbs
- West Makian terms with usage examples
- Yámana lemmas
- Yámana nouns
- Visual dictionary
- Yoruba terms inherited from Proto-Yoruboid
- Yoruba terms derived from Proto-Yoruboid
- Yoruba terms with IPA pronunciation
- Yoruba lemmas
- Yoruba nouns
- yo:Body parts
- yo:Anatomy
- yo:Face