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vu

See also: Appendix:Variations of "vu"

Dalmatian

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Etymology

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From Latin vōs.

Pronoun

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vu

  1. (second-person plural pronoun) you, you all, ye
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Esperanto

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Noun

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vu

  1. Alternative form of vuo

Fijian

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Noun

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vu

  1. root
    Synonym: waka

French

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Etymology

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Past participle of voir. Inherited from Old French veü, from earlier vedüt, possibly corresponding to a Vulgar Latin *vidūtus in place of Latin vīsus. Compare Italian veduto, Romanian văzut.

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vu (feminine vue, masculine plural vus, feminine plural vues)

  1. past participle of voir
    J’ai vu ce film.
    I’ve seen this film.

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Preposition

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vu

  1. given (based on)
    Vu le nombre de personnes ici, il vaut mieux partir !
    Given the number of people here, we're better off leaving!

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As a preposition, vu is invariable, never agreeing with the element it precedes.

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Ido

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French vous, Italian voi, Spanish vos, Russian вы (vy), all ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *yū́, with the Ido ending +‎ -u.

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Pronoun

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vu (plural vi)

  1. (formal) you (singular)

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  • tu (informal)

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Personal pronouns in Ido
  singular plural
nominative possessive nominative possessive
singular plural singular plural
first person  me  mea  mei  ni  nia  nii
second person formal  vu  vua  vui  vi  via  vii
familiar  tu  tua  tui
third person masculine  ilu, il  ilua  ilui  ili  ilia  ilii
feminine  elu, el  elua  elui  eli  elia  elii
neuter  olu, ol  olua  olui  oli  olia  olii
common  lu  lua  lui  li  lia  lii
reflexive  su  sua  sui  su  sua  sui
indefinite  onu, on  onua  onui  onu, on  onua  onui
  • The possessive plurals are seldom used.
  • The shortened forms are preferred.
  • The pangendered forms are preferred to the gendered or neuter forms in most scenarios.


Italian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Latin ū (the name of the letter V).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈvu/
  • Rhymes: -u
  • Hyphenation: vù

Noun

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vu f (invariable)

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter V/v.; vee

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Japanese

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Romanization

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vu

  1. The hiragana syllable ゔ (vu) or the katakana syllable ヴ (vu) in Hepburn romanization.

Lolopo

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Etymology

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From Proto-Loloish *ʔu¹ (Bradley). Cognate with Nuosu ꃶ (vu), Burmese အူ (u).

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Noun

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vu 

  1. (Yao'an) intestines

Miji

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Noun

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vu

  1. (Western or Eastern) water

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  • Roger Blench, Mark Post, (De)classifying Arunachal languages: Reconstructing the evidence (2011); see also Roger Blench, The Mijiic languages: distribution, dialects, wordlist and classification (2015)
  • ASJP

Pali

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Etymology

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Possibly extracted from saṃvuta, or more likely from the expected but unattested[1] Pali present stem development *vuṇāti of Sanskrit वृणोति (vṛṇoti).

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vu m

  1. The Pali root var[2]
    Synonym: vara[1]
    • c. 500 AD, Dhatumañjusa; republished in Dines Andersen & Helmer Smith, The Pāli Dhātupāṭha and the Dhātumañjūsā, Copenhagen: Andr. Fred. Host & son, 1921, page 46:
      121. Su savane saka sattimhi
      khi khayamhi gi saddane
      apa sambhu ca pāpuṇane
      hi gatimhi vu saṃvare.
      121. Su for listening, sak for strength, / khī for dimunition, ge for sound / ap for progeny and attainment / hi for gone, var for restraint.

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Pali Text Society (1921–1925) “vuṇāti”, in Pali-English Dictionary‎, London: Chipstead
  2. ^ Warder A.K. (2001) Introduction to Pali (overall work in English), Oxford: The Pali Text Society, page 380: “var (I) varati vuta -vari varissati varitvā”

Prasuni

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Etymology

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From earlier *vřu, from Proto-Nuristani *upařota, derived from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hráwtas. Compare Ashkun ẓo, Kamkata-viri řu, Waigali vřu.

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  • IPA(key): /ˈβu/ (tone class B)

Noun

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vu (Pronz)[1]

  1. intestines

References

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  1. ^ Strand, Richard F. (2016) “v′u”, in Nûristânî Etymological Lexicon‎[1]

Serbo-Croatian

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Preposition

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vu (Cyrillic spelling ву)

  1. (Kajkavian) (+ locative case) in, at
  2. (Kajkavian) (+ accusative case) to, into
  3. (Kajkavian) (+ accusative case) on, in, at, during (in expressions concerning time)
  4. (Kajkavian) (+ locative case) in, during (in expressions concerning time)

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Vietnamese

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Etymology

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Sino-Vietnamese word from 誣.

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Verb

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vu

  1. to slander, to libel

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