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pú

See also: Appendix:Variations of "pu"

Ghomala'

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Conjunction

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pú needs tone(s) (lexical tone unattested)

  1. and
    Pə́ a lə pə́ pôʼ pú lə̂ é gə́ fò. ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
    Tâ yáp pú Mâ yâp gɔm bí pú dəŋ tyə́ʼ gaə́ a ka púŋ gaə́ wáp pə́ nə̂ cwə̌ bə́ sáʼ â shɛ.
    Their father and mother told them [?] of the day [that] it is not good to [...]

Verb

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pú alternate of bú

  1. to fold, to wrap
    Pû də mhwə bú msɛ́. ― We wrap couscous in leaves.
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See also

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References

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  • Erika Eichholzer (editor) et al, Dictionnaire ghomala’ (2002)
  • Fotso Ivanova (2021), Bâ waə̌lə́ ghə yə́ lwɔ̀ʼ - Early Learning Resource Network

Mandarin

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Romanization

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pú (pu2, Zhuyin ㄆㄨˊ)

  1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 仆
  2. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 僕 / 仆
  3. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 匍
  4. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 圤
  5. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 墣
  6. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 扴
  7. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 朲
  8. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 樸 / 朴
  9. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 檌
  10. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 毞
  11. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 濬
  12. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 獛
  13. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 璞
  14. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 瞨
  15. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 穙
  16. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 箁
  17. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 纀 / 𰬿
  18. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 脭
  19. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 苻
  20. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 荾
  21. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 菐
  22. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 菩
  23. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 葡
  24. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蒱
  25. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蒲
  26. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 襆 / 幞
  27. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 襥
  28. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蹼
  29. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 轐 / 𫐗
  30. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 酺
  31. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 醪
  32. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鏷 / 镤
  33. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 镤
  34. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 㒒

Nheengatu

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Nheengatu numbers (edit)
50
[a], [b], [c] ←  4 5 6  → 
    Cardinal: pú, yepé-pú
    Ordinal: yepé-pusawa

Etymology

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Inherited from Old Tupi pó, from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *po, from Proto-Tupian *po.[1][2]

Noun

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pú (plural pú-itá)

  1. hand

Derived terms

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Numeral

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pú

  1. five

Usage notes

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Pú is mainly used in compounds. Yepé-pú is more common when refering to the number.

Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Andrey Nikulin (2020) Proto-Macro-Jê: um estudo reconstrutivo‎[1] (in Portuguese), Brasília: UnB, pages 566–567
  2. ^ Marcel Twardowsky Avila (2021) “pú”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português [Nheengatu–Portuguese dictionary proposal]‎[2] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, →DOI, pages 627–628
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