lu

See also: Appendix:Variations of "lu"

English

Etymology 1

Noun

lu (uncountable)

1. Archaic form of loo. (card game)

Verb

lu (third-person singular simple present lus, present participle luing, simple past and past participle lued)

1. Archaic form of loo. (beat at card game)

Etymology 2

A romanization of Chinese 路 (“route”)

Noun

lu (usually uncountable, plural lus)

1. (historical) Synonym of route or circuit: an administrative division of imperial China.

References

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

• UL, Ul, ul

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Aiwoo

Noun

lu

1. life

References

• Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007) , “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, issue 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

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Asturian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *illu, from Latin illum, accusative of ille. Compare Spanish lo.

Pronoun

lu, la f, lo n

1. Third-person singular direct object; him, it

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Basque

Noun

lu inan

1. pussy, vagina

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Corsican

Alternative forms

• u

Etymology

From Latin ille (“that”), from Old Latin olle (“that”). Cognates include Italian lo (“him”), il (“the”) and French le (“the, him”).

Article

lu

1. the (masculine)

Pronoun

lu

1. him

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Danish

Verb

lu

1. imperative of lue

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ly/

Verb

lu m (feminine singular lue, masculine plural lus, feminine plural lues)

1. past participle of lire

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Friulian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *illu, from Latin illum. Compare Italian lo.

Pronoun

lu (third person masculine direct object)

1. him

Related terms

• lui
• i

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Ido

Etymology

Back-formation from ilu (“he, him”), elu (“she, her”) and olu (“it”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lu/

Pronoun

lu (plural li)

1. Third-person singular pronoun for referents of any gender; he/him, she/her, it or that

   Me ne savas ka lu es viro o muliero.

   I don't know if he/she is a man or a woman.

Usage notes

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

• li (“they, them”)
• lua

Related terms

• ilu (“he, him”) (masculine)
• elu (“she, her”) (feminine)
• olu (“it”) (neuter)

See also

    Personal pronouns in Ido

		Singular			Plural
		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.

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Indonesian

Etymology

From Hokkien 汝 (lú).

Pronoun

lu

1. (Jakarta, slang) Second-person singular pronoun: you, your, yours

Synonyms

Indonesian informal second-person pronouns:

• kamu, mu
• lu, lo, elu, elo, eloe (slang, Jakarta)
• coen, koen, ko, kowe (slang, Java)
• engkau (semi-formal, Borneo, Medan)
• kau, dikau (poetic)

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Interlingue

Article

lu

1. the

Usage notes

Used as a definite article to form abstract concepts: lu bon the good.

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Mandarin

Romanization

lu (Zhuyin ˙ㄌㄨ)

1. Pinyin transcription of 氇

lu

1. Nonstandard spelling of lū.
2. Nonstandard spelling of lú.
3. Nonstandard spelling of lǔ.
4. Nonstandard spelling of lù.
5. Nonstandard spelling of lǘ.
6. Nonstandard spelling of lǚ.
7. Nonstandard spelling of lǜ.

Usage notes

• 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.

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Neapolitan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lu/

Pronoun

lu

1. Alternative form of 'u

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Novial

Pronoun

lu (plural lus, accusative lum)

1. it

Related terms

• la
• lo
• le

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Old French

Alternative forms

• lou, leu

Etymology

Reduced form of Latin lupus.

Noun

lu m (oblique plural lus, nominative singular lus, nominative plural lu)

1. wolf

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Sicilian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *illu, from Latin illum, from ille.

Article

lu m sg (plural li)

1. (definite article) the

Related terms

Sicilian articles
	Masculine	Feminine
indefinite singular	un, nu	na
definite singular	lu, û	la, â
definite plural	li, î	li, î

See also

• iddu

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Tocharian A

Etymology

Probably from Proto-Indo-European *luh_xeh₂, 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

lu

1. animal

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Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *luu, from Proto-Uralic *luwe.

Noun

lu

1. bone

Inflection

Inflection of lu
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

• hambazlu
• kül'glu
• melalu
• rindazlu
• ristlu

References

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007) , “кость”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

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Vietnamese

Etymology

Compare Khmer លូ (luu, “large jar”).

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [lu˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [lʊw˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [lʊw˧˧]

Noun

(classifier cái) lu

1. big vase used to contain water

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Welsh

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /lɨː/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /liː/

Noun

lu

1. Soft mutation of llu.

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
llu	lu	unchanged	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Zazaki

Alternative forms

• lû

Noun

lu ?

1. fox (Vulpes vulpes)

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Zou

Noun

lu

1. head

References

• http://www.languageinindia.com/feb2013/zouphonologyfinal.pdf