different between limy vs limu

English

Etymology

lime +? -y

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?l??.mi/
• Rhymes: -a?mi
• Homophone: limey

Adjective

limy (comparative limier, superlative limiest)

1. containing or resembling lime
   • 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 6:

     Limy muds accumulated there as sediments, and entombed the remains of the animals living on the sea-floor.

Translations

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