mū

See also: Appendix:Variations of "mu"

Hawaiian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmuː/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Polynesian *muu (“flying insect”)

Noun

mū

1. any destructive insect

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

mū

1. The name of the Latin script letter M/m.

Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.).

Noun

mū

1. (historical) kōnane
2. checkers

Derived terms

• mū kākela (“chess”)
• mū Pākē (“Chinese checkers”)

Etymology 4

From Proto-Polynesian *muu (“tropical porgy”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *muquɲ (“species of fish”).

Noun

mū

1. bigeye emperor bream (Monotaxis grandoculis)

Etymology 5

From Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *muu (“be silent”)

Verb

mū

1. (stative) silent

Derived terms

• hoʻomū (“to sit in silence”, verb)

Etymology 6

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

mū

1. (intransitive) to gather together

Derived terms

• hoʻomū

Further reading

• mū in Combined Hawaiian Dictionary, at trussel2.com.

Livonian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmuː/, [ˈmuː]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Finnic *muu.

Determiner

mū

1. other, another

Pronoun

mū

1. other, another

Declension

Declension of mū (3)

	singular (ikšlu’g)	plural (pǟgiņlu’g)
nominative (nominatīv)	mū	munt
genitive (genitīv)	mū	munt
partitive (partitīv)	mūdõ	mūḑi
dative (datīv)	mūn	muntõn
instrumental (instrumentāl)	mūkõks	muntkõks
illative (illatīv)	mū’zõ	mū’ži
inessive (inesīv)	mūsõ	mūši
elative (elatīv)	mūstõ	mūšti

Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic

Interjection

mū

1. moo

References

• Tiit-Rein Viitso; Valts Ernštreits (2012–2013), “mū”, in Līvõkīel-ēstikīel-lețkīel sõnārōntõz [Livonian-Estonian-Latvian Dictionary]‎^[1] (in Estonian and Latvian), Tartu, Rīga: Tartu Ülikool, Latviešu valodas aģentūra

Mandarin

Alternative forms

• mu — nonstandard

Romanization

mū (mu¹, Zhuyin ㄇㄨ)

1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 姆