tuhut

Brunei Malay

Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *tuət, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tuhud, from Proto-Austronesian *tuduS.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tuhut/
  • Hyphenation: tu‧hut

Noun

tuhut

  1. (anatomy) knee

Synonyms

Hyponyms

References

  • Marshall, H. B. (1921 April) “A Vocabulary of Brunei Malay”, in Journal of The Straits Branch of The Royal Asiatic Society, volume 83, page 74

Malay

Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *tuət, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tuhud, from Proto-Austronesian *tuduS.

Pronunciation

Noun

tuhut (Jawi spelling توهوت, plural tuhut-tuhut, informal 1st possessive tuhutku, 2nd possessive tuhutmu, 3rd possessive tuhutnya)

  1. (anatomy, dialectal) knee
    Synonyms: lutut, telut

References

  • Wilkinson, Richard James (1932) “tuhut”, in A Malay-English dictionary (romanised), volume II, Mytilene, Greece: Salavopoulos & Kinderlis, page 608

Further reading

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