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luj

See also: lüj, lůj, and ļuj

Albanian edit

Verb edit

luj

  1. Dialectal form of luaj

Lombard edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Latin iūlius. Compare Italian luglio, Piedmontese luj, Ligurian lùggio, Emilian lój, Spanish julio, Friulian Lui.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /lyj/, [lyj] (Western)
  • IPA(key): /lyj/, [løj] (Eastern)
  • IPA(key): /lyj/, [lyʎ] (Poschiavo)

Proper noun edit

luj m

  1. July

Polish edit

Etymology edit

Possibly borrowed from Middle High German loi, loie (“lazy”). If so, cognate to Middle Dutch lui.[1]

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /luj/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -uj
  • Syllabification: luj

Noun edit

luj m pers

  1. (colloquial, derogatory) bum, scrunge, a scruffy man
    Synonyms: lump, menel, żul
  2. (colloquial, derogatory) hoodlum, rogue
    Synonyms: łobuz, opryszek, zakapior
  3. (gay slang, derogatory) heterosexual man who is the object of desire of a homosexual (Is there an English equivalent to this definition?)

Declension edit

Declension of luj
singular plural
nominative luj luje
genitive luja lujów
dative lujowi lujom
accusative luja lujów
instrumental lujem lujami
locative luju lujach
vocative luju luje

Noun edit

luj m animal

  1. (school slang) F (falling grade)
    Synonyms: gała, lufa, pała

Declension edit

Declension of luj
singular plural
nominative luj luje
genitive luja lujów
dative lujowi lujom
accusative luja luje
instrumental lujem lujami
locative luju lujach
vocative luju luje

Derived terms edit

adjective

References edit

  1. ^ Adam Fałowski (2022) Słownik etymologiczny polszczyzny potocznej, Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, →ISBN

Further reading edit

  • luj in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romani edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Romanian lune.[1]

Noun edit

luj f (plural luja)

  1. Monday

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “lúja”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 170

Further reading edit

  • Marcel Courthiade (2009) “i/e luj, -a- ʒ. -a, -en- = i lùj/a¹#, -a- ʒ. -e, -en-”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 228

White Hmong edit

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Proto-Hmong *ljɛŋᴬ (“to measure (rice)”), borrowed from Middle Chinese 量 (MC ljang|ljangH, “quantity; to measure”).[1]

Verb edit

luj

  1. to measure, weigh

Etymology 2 edit

Borrowed from Chinese 騾／骡 (luó, “mule”).[2]

Noun edit

luj

  1. used in luj txwv (“mule”)

Etymology 3 edit

This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “Considered native Hmongic by Ratliff, though no reconstructed proto-form is given.[2] Any relation to Chinese 轆／辘 (lù, “used in compounds to denote rolling”)?”

Noun edit

luj

  1. used in compounds to mean heel, elbow
Derived terms edit

References edit

  • Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎[1], SEAP Publications, →ISBN, pages 118-9.
  1. ^ Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, pages 17-8; 276.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 https://web.archive.org/web/20101031002604/http://wold.livingsources.org/vocabulary/25
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