different between utu vs putu

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Maori utu.

Noun

utu (uncountable)

1. (New Zealand) Recompense, payback; revenge.
   • 2008, Christina Thompson, Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All, Bloomsbury 2009, p. 129:

     Utu demanded that both favors and grievances be repaid in kind, but it was the grievances, naturally, that caused the most trouble.

   • 2011, Andrew Alderson, New Zealand Herald, 19 Sep 2011:

     The match had been touted as a chance for utu after the 1999 and 2007 All Blacks World Cup defeats.

Buginese

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kutu, from Proto-Austronesian *kuCu.

Noun

utu

1. louse (insect)

Finnish

(index u)

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *utu, probably borrowed from Proto-Germanic [Term?] (compare Icelandic úði (“drizzle”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?utu/, [?ut?u]
• Rhymes: -utu
• Syllabification: u?tu

Noun

utu

1. haze, mist (of water vapor)

Usage notes

• The words sumu, usva and utu all describe "visible water vapor lightly suspended near the ground", but at different degrees. Sumu is the thickest and utu thinnest.
• utu is used for haze caused by water vapor - if the haze is caused by something else, it is called auer.

Declension

Derived terms

• utuinen

See also

• auer

Anagrams

• tuu

Ingrian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *utu. Cognates include Finnish utu and Estonian udu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?utu/

Noun

utu (genitive uun, partitive uttuua)

1. fog

Inflection

References

• Vitalij Chernyavskij (2005) Ižoran keel (Ittseopastaja)?^[1]

Maori

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian, from Proto-Oceanic, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *utu? (compare Hawaiian uku, Malay untung).

Noun

utu

1. pay

Swahili

Etymology

u- (“-ness”) +? -tu (“person”)

Pronunciation

Noun

utu (u class, no plural)

1. humanity, human nature, ubuntu

Zazaki

Noun

utu (m)

1. iron (device for pressing clothes)

English

Etymology

From Afrikaans putu, or its source, Zulu uphuthu.

Pronunciation

• (General South African) IPA^(key): /?p?t?/, /?pu?t?/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?pu?tu?/

Noun

putu (uncountable)

1. (South Africa) A form of porridge made from maize meal. [from 20th c.]
   • 1978, André Brink, Rumours of Rain, Vintage 2000, p. 328:

     Theo and I would join the servants for breakfast, squatting on our haunches round the three-legged iron pot, helping ourselves to tough putu porridge in our cupped hands.

   • 2012, Nadine Gordimer, No Time Like the Present, Bloomsbury 2013, p. 242:

     Jonathan is volunteering to carve the leg of lamb that was decided on, although there's putu with beans as well as roast potatoes Reed style (or what Jabu knows as white style).

Related terms

• putu pap

Translations

Greenlandic

Etymology

From Proto-Inuit *putu(-) (“hole through something, to pierce, has a hole”), from Proto-Eskimo *putru(-) (“hole, to pierce”). Compare putuvoq (“is perforated”), and pussorpoq (“has a hole worn in it”).

Noun

putu (plural putut)

1. hole

Further reading

• DAKA

Hopi

Adjective

putu

1. heavy (possessing great weight)

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay putu, from Tamil ?????? (pu??u, “puttu”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?putu]
• Hyphenation: pu?tu

Noun

putu (first-person possessive putuku, second-person possessive putumu, third-person possessive putunya)

1. (cooking) kue putu: an Indonesian (kue) traditional cylindrical-shaped and green-colored steamed cake.

Further reading

• “putu” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?putu/

Noun

putu

1. accusative singular of puta
2. instrumental singular of puta

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pu?tu]

Verb

putu

1. third-person singular simple perfect indicative of putea

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

putu m

1. dative/locative singular of put

Noun

putu (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. dative/locative singular of puto

Noun

putu (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. accusative singular of puta

Tausug

Noun

putu

1. A confection made by steaming grated cassava.