tumu

See also: tǔmù, ƫumu, and t̪umu

Hawaiian

Noun

tumu

  1. Niʻihau form of kumu (“parent”)
    O wai tou tumu?
    Who is your teacher?

Iban

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /tumu/
  • Rhymes: -mu
  • Hyphenation: tu‧mu

Adjective

tumu

  1. early

Maori

Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *tumu (compare with Hawaiian kumu)[1][2]

Noun

tumu

  1. foundation, base
  2. trunk, stump
  3. post, pole, stake

References
  1. Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary‎, Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, pages 551-2
  2. Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “tumu”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online

Further reading
  • “tumu” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

Mbre

Noun

túmṹ

  1. water

References

Sumerian

Romanization

tumu

  1. Romanization of 𒉎 (tumu)

Ternate

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈtu.mu]

Verb

tumu

  1. (intransitive) to dive (into water)
  2. (intransitive) to dive; to leap down from a high place

Conjugation
Conjugation of tumu
Singular Plural
Inclusive Exclusive
1st totumu fotumu mitumu
2nd notumu nitumu
3rd Masculine otumu itumu, yotumu†
Feminine motumu
Neuter itumu
† - archaic

Alternative forms
  • tum (with vowel deletion)

References
  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh
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