different between lieu vs limu

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French lieu, from Latin locum, accusative of locus (“place”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /l(j)u?/
• Rhymes: -u?
• Homophone: loo (in some accents)

Noun

lieu (uncountable)

1. place, stead; See in lieu or in lieu of

Translations

Anagrams

• euil, liue

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ljø/
• Homophones: lieue, lieus, lieux, lieues

Etymology 1

From Middle French lieu, from Old French leu, from Latin locum, accusative of locus, from Old Latin stlocus, from Proto-Indo-European *stel- (“to put, place, locate”).

Noun

lieu m (plural lieux)

1. place

Synonyms

• endroit
• place

Derived terms

Related terms

• louer
• loyer
• location

Etymology 2

From Middle French lief, from Old Norse lýr, lýrr, from Proto-Germanic *liuhizaz. Cognate with Norwegian lyr.

Noun

lieu m (plural lieus)

1. any of several fish from the Pollachius family.

Derived terms

Further reading

• “lieu” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French leu.

Noun

lieu m (plural lieux or lieus)

1. place

Descendants

• French: lieu

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Norse lýðrr.

Noun

lieu m (plural lieus)

1. (Jersey) whiting (fish)

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Sursilvan) liug
• (Sutsilvan) liac
• (Surmiran) li
• (Puter, Vallader) lö

Etymology

From Latin locus.

Noun

lieu m

1. (Rumantsch Grischun) place

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Hawaiian limu (“moss”).

Noun

limu (countable and uncountable, plural limus)

1. (Hawaii) Any of various kinds of edible algae, which form an important part of the traditional Hawaiian diet.
   • 2012, Julia Flynn Siler, Lost Kingdom, Grove Press, p. 158:

     The menu included chicken, roast pig, raw fish, seaweed, which Hawaiians called limu, roasted kukui nuts, and baked dog […]

Anagrams

• IUML, milu, muli

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?limu/, [?limu]
• Rhymes: -imu
• Syllabification: li?mu

Noun

limu

1. (colloquial) soda, soft drink

Declension

Synonyms

• (colloquial) limppari, limsa
• limonaati

Anagrams

• Lumi, lumi, muli

Hawaiian

Etymology

From Proto-Eastern Polynesian *rimu, from Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *rimu, from Proto-Polynesian *rimu, from Proto-Oceanic *limut, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *limut, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *limut, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *limut, doublet of Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lumut (compare Malay lumut).

Noun

limu

1. moss (plants of the division Bryophyta)

Sikaiana

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *rimu.

Noun

limu

1. moss (plants of the division Bryophyta), seagrass

Tboli

Numeral

limu

1. five