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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 Inuktitut ?? (ulu, “woman's knife”).

Noun

ulu (plural ulus or uluit)

1. An all-purpose knife traditionally used by Yup'ik, Inuit, and Aleut women.
2. Anglicized spelling of ?ulu (Hawaiian for breadfruit)

Translations

Anagrams

• Luu

Azerbaijani

Etymology

From Common Turkic *ulug.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [u??u]
• Hyphenation: u?lu

Adjective

ulu

1. great (magnificent)
2. great (degree of kinship)

3. ancient

   Synonym: q?dim

4. (linguistics, genetics) proto-

Further reading

• “ulu” in Obastan.com.

Basque

Noun

ulu inan

1. bay

Derived terms

• ulu egin

See also

• badia
• ereinotz
• erramu
• zaunka

Chamorro

Etymology

From Pre-Chamorro *?ulu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qulu, from Proto-Austronesian *qulu.

Noun

ulu

1. (anatomy) head (part of the body)

Chinook Jargon

Etymology

From Lower Chinook ulu, a noun meaning hunger in the Lower Chinook language

Adjective

ulu

1. hungry

Fijian

Etymology

From Proto-Central Pacific *qulu, from Proto-Oceanic *qulu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qulu, from Proto-Austronesian *qulu.

Noun

ulu

1. (anatomy) head (part of the body)

Hausa

Etymology

Borrowed from English wool.

Noun

?lù m (possessed form ?lùn)

1. wool
2. wool thread

Synonyms

• (wool): wul

Hawaiian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Polynesian *qulu.

Noun

ulu

1. growth
2. grove
3. flock

Derived terms

• ulu h?k?

Verb

ulu

1. (intransitive) to grow

Etymology 2

From Proto-Polynesian *huru (compare Maori uru), from Proto-Oceanic, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *surup (compare Javanese surup).

Verb

ulu

1. (intransitive) to inspire; to be possessed by a god

Ido

Pronoun

ulu

1. someone

Inuktitut

Noun

ulu

1. Latin spelling of ?? (ulu)

Limos Kalinga

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qulu, from Proto-Austronesian *qulu.

Noun

ulu

1. (anatomy) head (part of the body)

Makasar

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qulu, from Proto-Austronesian *quluh.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ulu]

Noun

ulu (Lontara spelling ????)

1. head

Matigsalug Manobo

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qulu, from Proto-Austronesian *qulu.

Noun

ulu

1. (anatomy) head (part of the body)

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?u.lu/

Noun

ulu m

1. locative/vocative singular of ul

Pukapukan

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *qulu, from Proto-Oceanic *qulu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qulu, from Proto-Austronesian *qulu.

Noun

ulu

1. (anatomy) head (part of the body)

Further reading

• Te Pukamuna | Pukapuka Dictionary

Turkish

Etymology

From Common Turkic *ulug.

Adjective

ulu (comparative daha ulu, superlative en ulu)

1. supreme, great, holy