uo

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• IPA^(key): /o/

uo

1. bird

Onomatopoeic.

• Hyphenation: u‧o

uo

1. (childish) to defecate

uo

1. (childish) excrement
2. (childish) a piece of excrement

uo

1. Rōmaji transcription of うお

• oo — obsolete, Spanish-based orthography

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ʔuˈʔoʔ/ [ʔʊˈʔoʔ]
• Rhymes: -oʔ
• Syllabification: u‧o

uô (Baybayin spelling ᜂᜂ)

1. (obsolete) name of the Baybayin letter ᜂ, corresponding to "u" or "o"

• Santos, Fr. Domingo de los (1835) Tomas Oliva, editor, Vocabulario de la lengua tagala: primera, y segunda parte.‎ (in Spanish), La imprenta nueva de D. Jose Maria Dayot
• San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero‎, La Noble Villa de Pila, page 448: “O) [Oo (pc)] letra deſtos tagalos .|. ooyaon .|. ᜂ en la.c. dije tenian eſtos tres diptongos aquel de. ie, y elle de. o v. no por que las eſcriuan diphtongadas ſino q̃ al pronunciarlas las equibocan y no [vſan] dellas mas de como ſuena mejor, el terçero de. ay.”

From Proto-Vanikoro *uvə, from Proto-Oceanic *qupi, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qubi.

• IPA^(key): /uo/

uo

1. yam (Dioscorea alata)

• François, Alexandre. 2021. Teanu dictionary (Solomon Islands). Dictionaria 15. 1-1877. DOI:10.5281/zenodo.5653063. – entry uo.
• François, Alexandre. 2021. Online Teanu–English dictionary, with equivalents in Lovono and Tanema. Electronic files. Paris: CNRS. – entry uo.
• Lackey, W.J.. & Boerger, B.H. (2021) “Reexamining the Phonological History of Oceanic's Temotu subgroup”, in Oceanic Linguistics.

From Proto-Polynesian *qura, from Proto-Austronesian *qudaŋ (“shrimp, crayfish, lobster”) (compare Fijian ura, Malay udang).

• IPA^(key): /u.o/

uo

1. lobster