different between utu vs shamash

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 Hebrew ????????? (shamásh, “waiter, sexton”). Doublet of shammes.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æ?

Noun

shamash (plural shamashim)

1. (Judaism) The candle used to light the other eight candles of a Hanukkah menorah.
2. A sexton in a synagogue.

Related terms

• shammes

Translations