sinu

sinu

1. (interrogative) who

sinu

1. genitive of sina
2. accusative of sina

From Proto-Oceanic *sinu, cognate with Maori hinu and Hawaiian hinu both meaning "oil, fat, grease".

sinu

1. unscented coconut oil leftover after boiling

sinu

1. Phaleria disperma, a kind of shrub.

• Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “sinu.1”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online
• Gatty, Ronald (2009) “sinu”, in Fijian-English Dictionary, Suva, Fiji: Ronald Gatty, →ISBN, page 230

IPA^(key): /sinuʔ/

sinu

1. sad

   Sinu iya ― He is sad

sinu

1. to pity; feel sorry for someone

   Aku sinu ke iya laban iya nadai duit.

   I feel sorry for him because he has no money.

sinū

1. ablative singular of sinus

• sinu in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

sinu

1. accusative/genitive singular of sitnu

• seno, senu, seono, seonu, sionu, synu

Inherited from Proto-West Germanic *sinu, from Proto-Germanic *sinwō, *senawō (“sinew”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsi.nu/

sinu f

1. sinew, nerve, tendon

• Middle English: synwe, senow, senewe, senowe, senue, senwe, synewe, synoghe, synow, synue, synuwe, synueu; senuwe, seonuwe, seonuwwe; cynew, cynwe, sinewe, sinnu, syneou, synneu, synnew, synnou, synnow, zenewe; syn
  • English: sinew
  • Scots: sinnon, sinnen, sennin, shinnon

sīnu

1. strong masculine/neuter instrumental singular of sīn

sinu (Cyrillic spelling сину)

1. accusative singular of sina

From Portuguese sino (“bell”), from Old Galician-Portuguese sino (“bell”), from Late Latin signum (“bell, ringing of a bell”), from Latin signum (“sign”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”) or *sekʷ- (“to follow”).

sinu

1. bell

Contraction of sí inú (“towards the inside”).

IPA^(key): /sí.nṹ/

sínú

1. into; in

   Bá mi kódọ̀tí sínú apẹ̀rẹ̀. ― Help me pack the rubbish into the bin.

   Ta ló jù ú sínú odò? ― Who threw it into the river?

• used when movement is implied, when no movement is implied nínú is used.