lu
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English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Noun[edit]
lu (uncountable)
- Archaic form of loo. (card game)
Verb[edit]
lu (third-person singular simple present lus, present participle luing, simple past and past participle lued)
- Archaic form of loo. (beat at card game)
Etymology 2[edit]
A romanization of Chinese 路 (“route”)
Noun[edit]
lu (usually uncountable, plural lus)
- (historical) Synonym of route or circuit: an administrative division of imperial China.
References[edit]
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for lu in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Anagrams[edit]
Aiwoo[edit]
Noun[edit]
lu
References[edit]
- Greenhill, S.J., Blust. R, & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.
Asturian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Vulgar Latin *illu, from Latin illum, accusative of ille. Compare Spanish lo.
Pronoun[edit]
Basque[edit]
Noun[edit]
lu
Danish[edit]
Verb[edit]
lu
- imperative of lue
French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
lu m (feminine singular lue, masculine plural lus, feminine plural lues)
- past participle of lire
Friulian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Vulgar Latin *illu, from Latin illum. Compare Italian lo.
Pronoun[edit]
lu (third person masculine direct object)
Related terms[edit]
Ido[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Back-formation from ilu (“he, him”), elu (“she, her”) and olu (“it”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Pronoun[edit]
lu (plural li)
- Third-person singular pronoun for referents of any gender; he/him, she/her, it or that
- Me ne konocas se lu es viro o muliero.
- I don't know if he/she is a man or a woman.
- Me ne konocas se lu es viro o muliero.
Usage notes[edit]
Lu is widely used in Ido, and not exclusively when a gendered possessive determiner is inappropriate, but also in order to avoid repetition depending on the user's preferences.
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
See also[edit]
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Singular | Plural | |||||
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Nominative | Possessive | Nominative | Possessive | ||||
Singular | Plural | Singular | Plural | ||||
First person | me | mea | mei | ni | nia | nii | |
Second person | Formal | vu | vua | vui | vi | via | vii |
Familiar | tu | tua | tui | ||||
Third person | Masculine | ilu, il | ilua | ilui | ili | ilia | ilii |
Feminine | elu, el | elua | elui | eli | elia | elii | |
Neuter | olu, ol | olua | olui | oli | olia | olii | |
Pangender | lu | lua | lui | li | lia | lii | |
Reflexive | su | sua | sui | su | sua | sui | |
Indefinite | onu, on | onua | onui | onu, on | onua | onui | |
Notes | |||||||
The possessive plurals are seldom used. | |||||||
The shortened forms are preferred. | |||||||
The pangendered forms are preferred to the gendered or neuter forms in most scenarios. |
Interlingue[edit]
Article[edit]
lu
Usage notes[edit]
Used as a definite article to form abstract concepts: lu bon the good.
Mandarin[edit]
Romanization[edit]
lu (Zhuyin ˙ㄌㄨ)
lu
- Nonstandard spelling of lū.
- Nonstandard spelling of lú.
- Nonstandard spelling of lǔ.
- Nonstandard spelling of lù.
- Nonstandard spelling of lǘ.
- Nonstandard spelling of lǚ.
- Nonstandard spelling of lǜ.
Usage notes[edit]
- English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.
Neapolitan[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Pronoun[edit]
lu
- Alternative form of 'u
Novial[edit]
Pronoun[edit]
lu (plural lus, accusative lum)
Related terms[edit]
Old French[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
lu m (oblique plural lus, nominative singular lus, nominative plural lu)
Sicilian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Vulgar Latin *illu, from Latin illum, from ille.
Article[edit]
lu m sg (plural li)
- (definite article) the
Related terms[edit]
Sicilian articles | ||
Masculine | Feminine | |
indefinite singular | un, nu | na |
definite singular | lu, û | la, â |
definite plural | li, î | li, î |
See also[edit]
Tocharian A[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Probably from Proto-Indo-European *luhxeh₂, through a Proto-Tocharian *luwā-. Compare Tocharian B luwo. May be distantly related to Old Church Slavonic lovъ (lovŭ, “chase”), Serbo-Croatian lõv (“chase; game animal”); compare also Ancient Greek λέων (léōn).
Noun[edit]
lu
Veps[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Finnic *luu, from Proto-Uralic *luwe.
Noun[edit]
lu
Inflection[edit]
Inflection of lu | |||
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nominative sing. | lu | ||
genitive sing. | lun | ||
partitive sing. | lud | ||
partitive plur. | luid | ||
singular | plural | ||
nominative | lu | lud | |
accusative | lun | lud | |
genitive | lun | luiden | |
partitive | lud | luid | |
essive-instructive | lun | luin | |
translative | luks | luikš | |
inessive | lus | luiš | |
elative | luspäi | luišpäi | |
illative | ? | luihe | |
adessive | lul | luil | |
ablative | lulpäi | luilpäi | |
allative | lule | luile | |
abessive | luta | luita | |
comitative | lunke | luidenke | |
prolative | ludme | luidme | |
approximative I | lunno | luidenno | |
approximative II | lunnoks | luidennoks | |
egressive | lunnopäi | luidennopäi | |
terminative I | ? | luihesai | |
terminative II | lulesai | luilesai | |
terminative III | lussai | — | |
additive I | ? | luihepäi | |
additive II | lulepäi | luilepäi |
Derived terms[edit]
References[edit]
- Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “кость”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika
Vietnamese[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
(classifier cái) lu
Zazaki[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Noun[edit]
lu ?
- fox (Vulpes vulpes)
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