solu

From Latin solus.

solu m sg (feminine singular sola, neuter singular solo, masculine plural solos, feminine plural soles)

1. sole
2. alone

solu m (plural solos)

1. (music) solo

Probably sola (“narrow space or gap between buildings”) +‎ -u. Coined by Finnish physician and philologist Elias Lönnrot in 1858.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsolu/, [ˈs̠o̞lu]
• Rhymes: -olu
• Syllabification^(key): so‧lu

solu

1. (biology, communication, computing) cell
2. (colloquial) Ellipsis of soluasunto.

• kenno, selli

• “solu”, 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 2023-07-01

• IPA^(key): /ˈsoluˣ/, [ˈs̠o̞lu(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -olu
• Syllabification^(key): so‧lu

solu

1. inflection of solua:
   1. present active indicative connegative
   2. second-person singular present imperative
   3. second-person singular present active imperative connegative

• Soul, Sulo, soul, sulo, ulos

solu m

1. inflection of sols:
   1. accusative/instrumental singular
   2. genitive plural

solu

1. first-person singular present indicative of solīt

• IPA^(key): [ˈsɔlu]

solu

1. instrumental singular of sol

Uncertain. No corresponding cognates (i.e. feminine o-stem nouns) in the other Germanic languages. Likely a back-formation from solu (“swamp, bog”, literally “miry places, muds”), the nominative/accusative plural of sol (“soil, mud, miry place”), taken collectively.

• IPA^(key): /ˈso.lu/

solu f

1. mire
2. a miry place

• Middle English: sole
  • English: sole, soal