lu
English
Etymology 1
Noun
lu (uncountable)
Verb
lu (third-person singular simple present lus, present participle luing, simple past and past participle lued)
Etymology 2
A romanization of Chinese 路 (lù, “route”)
Noun
lu (usually uncountable, plural lus)
- (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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams
Aiwoo
Noun
lu
References
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Asturian
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *illu, from Latin illum, accusative of ille. Compare Spanish lo.
Pronoun
Basque
Noun
lu ?
Danish
Verb
lu
French
Pronunciation
Verb
lu (feminine lue, masculine plural lus, feminine plural lues)
- past participle of lire
Friulian
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *illu, from Latin illum. Compare Italian lo.
Pronoun
lu (third person masculine direct object)
Related terms
Ido
Etymology
Back-formation from ilu (“he, him”), elu (“she, her”) and olu (“it”).
Pronunciation
Pronoun
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
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
Related terms
See also
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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 | |
Common | 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. |
Indonesian
Etymology
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Pronoun
lu
Synonyms
Indonesian informal second-person pronouns:
- anta (informal, mainly used by Muslim community)
- antum (informal, mainly used by Muslim community)
- coen (slang, East Java)
- ente (informal, mainly used by Betawi ethnic group)
- kamu (intimate)
- ko, kowe (informal, Java)
- kon, koen (colloquial, East Java)
- lu, lo, loe, elu (informal, mainly used by Betawi ethnic group)
- mika, mike (informal, Eastern Sumatra)
Interlingue
Article
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Usage notes
Used as a definite article to form abstract concepts: lu bon the good.
Mandarin
Romanization
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
- 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.
Neapolitan
Pronunciation
Pronoun
lu
- Alternative form of 'u
Novial
Pronoun
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Related terms
Old French
Alternative forms
Etymology
Noun
lu oblique singular, m (oblique plural lus, nominative singular lus, nominative plural lu)
Sicilian
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *illu, from Latin illum, from ille.
Article
lu m sg (plural li)
- (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
Tocharian A
Etymology
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
lu
Veps
Etymology
From Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 2 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "fiu-fin-pro" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E., from Proto-Uralic *luwe.
Noun
lu
Inflection
Derived terms
References
- Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “кость”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary][1], Petrozavodsk: Periodika
Vietnamese
Etymology
Compare Khmer លូ (luu, “large jar”).
Pronunciation
Noun
(classifier cái) lu
Zazaki
Alternative forms
Noun
lu
Zou
Noun
lu
References
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English archaic forms
- English verbs
- English terms derived from Chinese
- English countable nouns
- English terms with historical senses
- Äiwoo lemmas
- Äiwoo nouns
- Asturian terms inherited from Vulgar Latin
- Asturian terms derived from Vulgar Latin
- Asturian terms inherited from Latin
- Asturian terms derived from Latin
- Asturian lemmas
- Asturian pronouns
- Basque lemmas
- Basque nouns
- Danish non-lemma forms
- Danish verb forms
- French 1-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French non-lemma forms
- French past participles
- Friulian terms inherited from Vulgar Latin
- Friulian terms derived from Vulgar Latin
- Friulian terms inherited from Latin
- Friulian terms derived from Latin
- Friulian lemmas
- Friulian pronouns
- Ido back-formations
- Ido terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ido lemmas
- Ido pronouns
- Indonesian lemmas
- Indonesian pronouns
- Jakarta Indonesian
- Indonesian slang
- Hanyu Pinyin
- Mandarin non-lemma forms
- Mandarin pinyin
- Mandarin nonstandard forms
- Neapolitan terms with IPA pronunciation
- Neapolitan lemmas
- Neapolitan pronouns
- Old French terms inherited from Latin
- Old French terms derived from Latin
- Old French lemmas
- Old French nouns
- Old French masculine nouns
- fro:Animals
- Sicilian terms inherited from Vulgar Latin
- Sicilian terms derived from Vulgar Latin
- Sicilian terms inherited from Latin
- Sicilian terms derived from Latin
- Sicilian lemmas
- Sicilian articles
- Tocharian A terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Tocharian A terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Tocharian A terms inherited from Proto-Tocharian
- Tocharian A terms derived from Proto-Tocharian
- Tocharian A lemmas
- Tocharian A nouns
- Veps terms derived from Proto-Uralic
- Veps lemmas
- Veps nouns
- vep:Body
- Vietnamese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Vietnamese nouns classified by cái
- Vietnamese lemmas
- Vietnamese nouns
- Zazaki lemmas
- Zazaki nouns
- zza:Mammals
- Zou lemmas
- Zou nouns