'u

See also: U, ս, and Appendix:Variations of "u"

Guaraní

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʔu/

Verb

'u (active, transitive, irregular)

  1. eat, drink

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • y'u (drink water)

Neapolitan

Alternative forms

Etymology

From lu, from Latin illum.

Pronunciation

Pronoun

'u

  1. him (accusative)

Coordinate terms

NumberPersonNominativeAccusativeDativeReflexivePossessivePrepositional
singular first-person io (i') me mìo, mìa, mieje, meje me, méne
second-person, familiar tu te tùjo, tòja, tùoje, tòje te, téne
second-person, formal vuje ve vuósto, vósta, vuóste, vóste vuje
third-person, masculine ìsso 'o, 'u (lo, lu) 'i, 'e (li, le) se sùjo, sòja, sùoje, sòje ìsso
third-person, feminine éssa 'a (la) 'e (le) éssa
plural first-person nuje ce nuósto, nòsta, nuóste, nòste nuje
second-person, plural vuje ve vuósto, vòsta, vuóste, vòste vuje
third-person, masculine ìsse 'i, 'e (li, le) llòro se llòro (invariable) llòro
third-person, feminine llòro 'e (le)

Old Tupi

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *ʔu (to eat), from Proto-Tupian *kʔu (to speak).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʔu/
  • Rhymes: -u
  • Hyphenation: 'u

Verb

'u (first-person singular active indicative aî'u, first-person singular negative active indicative naî'uî, noun 'u) (transitive)

  1. to eat; to drink

References

  1. Beatriz Carretta Corrêa da Silva (2010) Mawé/Awetí/Tupí-Guaraní: relações linguísticas e implicações históricas (in Portuguese), Brasília: UnB, page 408

Further reading

Tarantino

Article

'u m sg (plural le)

  1. the

Welsh

Etymology

Contraction of eu (their).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /i̯/
  • Homophone: 'i

Usage notes

  • Despite being written as u, the vowel here is /i̯/ in north Wales, making it homophonous with singular 'i in all varieties of the spoken language.

Determiner

'u

  1. their (used after vowels)
    Ymwelon ni â’u hwyres nhw’n yr ysbyty.
    We visited their granddaughter in hospital.

Pronoun

'u

  1. them (used after vowels as the direct object of a verbal noun or verb)
    Cyhuddodd fi o’u dwyn ac yna’u gwerthu.
    He/She accused me of stealing them and then selling them.
    Fe’u ceir yma o bryd i'w gilydd.
    They are found (lit. "One finds them") here occasionally.

Usage notes

  • In formal Welsh, the contraction 'u is a valid form of eu found after mostly functional vowel-final words. In colloquial Welsh, eu is often contracted to 'u after almost any vowel-final word.
  • Pronomial 'u (and eu) can occur before any verbal noun. Before a verb, pronomial 'u is found only in formal language after certain vowel-final preverbal particles, such as fe, a and y. After certain certain vowel-final preverbal particles, such as ni, na, oni and pe, -s is used instead.
  • After the preposition i (to), the contraction changes to i’w.

Further reading

  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “'u”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
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