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yu

See also: Appendix:Variations of "yu"
Languages (33)
English
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English

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Etymology 1

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From Chinese 玉 (yù).

Noun

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yu (countable and uncountable, plural yu)

  1. (archaeology, countable) An ancient Chinese wine-bucket, often having a decorative cover.
    • 1962, William Watson, Ancient Chinese Bronzes, page 34:
      A group of slenderer yu also survive from the Shang into the early Chou period, though they are rarer than the other design […] A yu with square body in the Hakuzuru Museum is the finest of these.
  2. (archaic, uncountable) Jade, nephrite or jadeite.
    • 1818, Clarke Abel, Narrative of a Journey in the Interior of China, page 133:
      The Yu, although of the hardness of rock crystal, is worked into an endless variety of forms […]
    • 1826, The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British India and Its Dependencies:
      Another stone with which it would be interesting to compare it is the celebrated yu stone of the Chinese, which Dr. Abel, in his work on China, conjectured to be a species of nephrite […]

Etymology 2

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See you.

Pronoun

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yu

  1. Eye dialect spelling of you.

Etymology 3

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From Russian ю (ju).

Noun

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yu (plural yus)

  1. The letter Ю, ю.
Translations
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Anagrams

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Ama

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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yu

  1. mountain, hill

Bargam

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Noun

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yu

  1. Alternative form of yuw

References

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  • Loanwords in Takia, in Loanwords in the World's Languages: A Comparative Handbook (edited by Martin Haspelmath, Uri Tadmor), page 761

Belizean Creole

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Etymology

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From English you.

Pronoun

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yu

  1. you (second-person singular pronoun)

Determiner

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yu

  1. your (second-person singular possessive pronoun)

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Bislama

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Etymology

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From English you. Cognate with Tok Pisin yu.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈju/
  • Hyphenation: yu

Pronoun

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yu

  1. thou, you (singular)

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Bislama personal pronouns
singular dual trial plural
1st person exclusive mi mitufala mitrifala mifala
inclusive — yumitu, yumitufala yumitrifala yumi
2nd person yu yutufala yutrifala yufala
3rd person neutral hem, em tufala trifala ol1, olgeta
collective2 — tugeta trigeta —
1 Used only as an object of a preposition or a verb.
2 The collective pronouns specify that the action is performed by all subjects together, rather than on their own.
Some speakers may not distinguish various plurality categories, using only one or two plural pronouns.

References

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  • Terry Crowley (2004) Bislama Reference Grammar, Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi press, →ISBN, page 46

Cameroon Pidgin

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Pronoun

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yu

  1. Alternative spelling of you (“2nd person singular subject and object personal pronoun”)

Duna

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Noun

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yu

  1. water

References

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  • Transnewguinea.org, citing Shaw (1973) (see Pacific Linguistics, edited by Karl James Franklin, 1973)

Indonesian

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Noun

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yu (plural yu-yu)

  1. older sister

Jamaican Creole

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Pronoun

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yu

  1. Alternative spelling of yuh

Japanese

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Romanization

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yu

  1. The hiragana syllable ゆ (yu) or the katakana syllable ユ (yu) in Hepburn romanization.

Jarai

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Etymology

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From Vietnamese dù.

Noun

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yu (classifier pŏk)

  1. parachute

Kamula

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Noun

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yu

  1. water

References

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  • transnewguinea.org, citing G. Reesink Languages of the Aramia River Area (1976), Papers in New Guinea Linguistics No. 19
  • Possible Cognates Between Kamula and Pa, chart 10, page 16, in Papers in New Guinea Linguistics, issues 17-20 (1990)

Malalamai

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Noun

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yu

  1. water

Further reading

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  • Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)

Malay

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Alternative forms

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  • hiu (obsolete in Malay, standard in Indonesian)

Etymology

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From hiu, from Proto-Malayic *hiu(ʔ), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qihu, from Proto-Austronesian *qiSu.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈju/ [ˈju]
  • Rhymes: -u
  • Hyphenation: yu

Noun

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yu (Jawi spelling يو, plural yu-yu)

  1. A shark (scaleless cartilaginous fish).
    Synonym: jerung
    Ikan yu ialah seekor haiwan akuatik yang sangat kuat gigitannya.
    The shark is an aquatic animal whose bites are very strong.

Compounds

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Mandarin

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Romanization

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yu

  1. Nonstandard spelling of yū.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of yú.
  3. Nonstandard spelling of yǔ.
  4. Nonstandard spelling of yù.

Usage notes

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  • Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Mapudungun

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Noun

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yu (Raguileo spelling)

  1. (anatomy) nose

References

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  • Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.

Middle English

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Pronoun

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yu

  1. (chiefly Northern) Alternative form of yow

Miskito

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Noun

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yu

  1. sun
  2. day

Nigerian Pidgin

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Etymology

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From English you.

Pronoun

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yu

  1. you

Papiamentu

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Alternative forms

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  • yiu (alternative spelling)

Etymology

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Comes from Old Papiamentu "joego", from Spanish hijo. Compare and Kabuverdianu fidju "child" (ac Jacobs).

Noun

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yu

  1. child (of parents)

Pijin

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Pronoun

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yu

  1. Alternative form of iu

Prasuni

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Etymology

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From Proto-Nuristani *ko < earlier *kawa. Compare Ashkun këvā, Kamkata-viri kavo, këvo, Waigali kavā.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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yu (Pronz)[1]

  1. basket

References

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

Sranan Tongo

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From English you.

Pronunciation

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Determiner

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yu

  1. your

Pronoun

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yu

  1. you

Descendants

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  • Aukan: yu
  • >? Maroon Spirit Language: i
  • Saramaccan: yu

Swahili

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Verb

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yu

  1. (dated or literary) positive degree present and gnomic third-person singular m class(I) of -wa (“he/she is”)
    • (Can we date this quote?), “Umechoka Umesumbuka”:
      Mwambie Yesu sumbuko lako, yu rafiki amini
      Tell Jesus your trouble; [he] is a friend, trust it

Tagalog

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English u, the English name of the letter U/u.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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yu (Baybayin spelling ᜌᜓ)

  1. the name of the Latin-script letter U/u, in the Filipino alphabet
    Synonym: (in the Abakada alphabet and the Abecedario) u

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Further reading

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  • “yu”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

Anagrams

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Tataltepec Chatino

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Pronoun

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yu

  1. he

Tok Pisin

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Etymology

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From English you.

Pronoun

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yu (personal)

  1. you (singular)

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Tok Pisin personal pronouns
singular dual trial plural
1st person exclusive mi mitupela mitripela mipela
inclusive yumitupela yumitripela yumipela, yumi
2nd person yu yutupela yutripela yupela
3rd person em tupela tripela ol

Torres Strait Creole

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Etymology

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From English you.

Pronoun

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yu (personal)

  1. you (singular)

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Unami

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Alternative forms

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Pronunciation

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Pronoun

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yu

  1. this (inanimate)

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Unami demonstrative pronouns
animate inanimate obviative
proximal singular (“this”) wa, wàn, wàni yu, yun, yuni yul, yuli
distal singular (“that”) na, nàn, nàni në, nën, nëni
proximal plural (“these”) yuki, yuk yuli, yul nèl
distal plural (“those”) nèki, nèk nèl
absentative1 distal singular naka nike
absentative1 distal plural nèl nikahke
absentative1 proximal singular waka

1 Inaccessible to speaker, deceased

Waskia

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Noun

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yu

  1. water
  2. river

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Yoruba

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Alternative forms

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Verb

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yú

  1. (Ekiti, Idanre, Ondo, Ọwọ, Ikalẹ, Usẹn) to go
    Synonyms: lọ, rè
    Me è yú ― I will not go (Èkìtì)
    Ùwọ ó yú ín. ― It was you who went. (Ìkálẹ̀)

Derived terms

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Zacatepec Chatino

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Pronoun

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yu

  1. they

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Zarma

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Noun

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yu

  1. honey

References

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  • David Bellama, Cours de Zarma pour le Niger: trainee's book (1976)
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