utu

See also: UTU, Utu, and ütü

English

Etymology

Borrowing from Maori utu.

Noun

utu (uncountable)

1. (New Zealand) Recompense, payback; revenge.
   • 2008, Christina Thompson, Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All, Bloomsbury 2009, p. 129:

     Utu demanded that both favors and grievances be repaid in kind, but it was the grievances, naturally, that caused the most trouble.

   • 2011, Andrew Alderson, New Zealand Herald, 19 Sep 2011:

     The match had been touted as a chance for utu after the 1999 and 2007 All Blacks World Cup defeats.

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Buginese

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kutu, from Proto-Austronesian *kuCu.

Noun

utu

1. louse (insect)

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Finnish

(index u)

Utu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈutu/
• Hyphenation: u‧tu

Noun

utu

1. haze, mist

Declension

Inflection of utu (Kotus type 1/valo, t-d gradation)
nominative		utu	udut
genitive		udun	utujen
partitive		utua	utuja
illative		utuun	utuihin
		singular	plural
nominative		utu	udut
accusative	nom.	utu	udut
	gen.	udun
genitive		udun	utujen
partitive		utua	utuja
inessive		udussa	uduissa
elative		udusta	uduista
illative		utuun	utuihin
adessive		udulla	uduilla
ablative		udulta	uduilta
allative		udulle	uduille
essive		utuna	utuina
translative		uduksi	uduiksi
instructive		—	uduin
abessive		udutta	uduitta
comitative		—	utuineen

Usage notes

• The words sumu, usva and utu all describe "visible water vapor lightly suspended near the ground", but at different degrees. Sumu is the thickest and utu thinnest.

Derived terms

• utuinen

See also

• auer

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Maori

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian, from Proto-Oceanic, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *utuŋ (compare Indonesian untung, Malay untung).

Noun

utu

1. pay

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Swahili

Etymology

u- (“-ness”) +‎ -tu (“man”)

Noun

utu (u class, no plural)

1. manhood