masu

From Inupiaq masu.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmasuː/

masu

1. A plant, Hedysarum alpinum, whose edible root is consumed by the Inuit of Alaska.

From Japanese 枡.

masu (plural masu)

1. A square wooden box, originally used to measure rice in Japan during the feudal period.

From Japanese 鱒 (masu, “trout, sea trout, salmon”).

masu (plural masu)

1. masu salmon (Oncorhynchus masou)

• masu-seki (possibly etymologically unrelated, but it is Japanese, like previous etymologies.)

• AMUs, MSAU, MUAs, Maus, Musa, UMAs, USMA, amus, aums, saum

• IPA^(key): /ˈmasu/, [ˈmʌsʊ]
• Hyphenation: ma‧su

másu m 

1. thickness

• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎, Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

• IPA^(key): [ˈmasu]

masu

1. dative/locative singular of maso

• massu

< maha

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑsu/, [ˈmɑ̝s̠u]
• Rhymes: -ɑsu
• Syllabification^(key): ma‧su

masu (colloquial, childish)

1. tummy

• maha
• vatsa

• “masu”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

• Samu, musa, suma, usma

masu

1. Rōmaji transcription of ます
2. Rōmaji transcription of マス

Derived from Latin mansus, past participle of maneō (to stay, to remain), with an intrusive U added between the S and the base and the pre-sibilant N being lost.

masu

1. past participle of manoir

• maso, massu

Univerbation of má (“if”) +‎ is (“is”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈmasu/

masu (triggers lenition)

1. if… is
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 10^d26

     massu thol atom·aig dó; manid ar lóg

     if it is desire that drives me to it; if it is not for pay

   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 19^b1

     massu rect fíriánigedar cách

     if it is law that justifies everyone