Wiktionary

yu

See also: YU, yú, yù, yū, Yū, yǔ, yǘ, and .yu

EnglishEdit

 
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PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Chinese 玉 (yù).

NounEdit

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 2Edit

See you.

PronounEdit

yu

  1. Eye dialect spelling of you.

Etymology 3Edit

From Russian ю (ju).

NounEdit

yu (plural yus)

  1. The letter Ю, ю.
TranslationsEdit

AmaEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

yu

  1. mountain, hill

BargamEdit

NounEdit

yu

  1. Alternative form of yuw

ReferencesEdit

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

Belizean CreoleEdit

EtymologyEdit

From English you.

PronounEdit

yu

  1. you; second-person singular subjective personal pronoun

DeterminerEdit

yu

  1. your

ReferencesEdit

  • Crosbie, Paul, ed. (2007), Kriol-Inglish Dikshineri: English-Kriol Dictionary. Belize City: Belize Kriol Project, p. 379.

BislamaEdit

EtymologyEdit

From English you. Cognate with Tok Pisin yu.

PronunciationEdit

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

PronounEdit

yu

  1. thou, you (singular)

See alsoEdit

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
collective — tugeta trigeta —
1) Used only as an object of a preposition or a verb.
*) Some speakers may not distinguish various plurality categories, using only one or two plural pronouns.
**) The collective pronouns specify that the action is performed by all subjects together, rather than on their own.

ReferencesEdit

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

Cameroon PidginEdit

PronounEdit

yu

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

DunaEdit

NounEdit

yu

  1. water

ReferencesEdit

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

Jamaican CreoleEdit

PronounEdit

yu

  1. Alternative spelling of yuh

JapaneseEdit

RomanizationEdit

yu

  1. Rōmaji transcription of ゆ
  2. Rōmaji transcription of ユ

JaraiEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Vietnamese dù.

NounEdit

yu (classifier pŏk)

  1. parachute

KamulaEdit

NounEdit

yu

  1. water

ReferencesEdit

  • 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)

LashiEdit

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

yu

  1. to take

ReferencesEdit

  • Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid‎[1], Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis)

MalalamaiEdit

NounEdit

yu

  1. water

Further readingEdit

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

MalayEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

From hiu, from Proto-Malayic *hiu, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *hiu, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *hiu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qihu (compare Fijian qio), from Proto-Austronesian *qiSu.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

yu (Jawi spelling يو‎, plural yu-yu, informal 1st possessive yuku, 2nd possessive yumu, 3rd possessive yunya)

  1. a shark (scaleless cartilaginous fish).
    Yu ialah seekor haiwan akuatik yang sangat kuat gigitannya.
    The shark is an aquatic animal whose bites are very strong.

SynonymsEdit

Further readingEdit

MandarinEdit

RomanizationEdit

yu

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

Usage notesEdit

  • English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

MapudungunEdit

NounEdit

yu (Raguileo spelling)

  1. (anatomy) nose

ReferencesEdit

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

Middle EnglishEdit

PronounEdit

yu

  1. (chiefly Northern) Alternative form of yow

MiskitoEdit

NounEdit

yu

  1. sun
  2. day

Nigerian PidginEdit

EtymologyEdit

From English you.

PronounEdit

yu

  1. you

OkinawanEdit

RomanizationEdit

yu

  1. Rōmaji transcription of ゆ

PapiamentuEdit

 

Alternative formsEdit

  • yiu (alternative spelling)

EtymologyEdit

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

NounEdit

yu

  1. child (of parents)

PijinEdit

PronounEdit

yu

  1. Alternative form of iu

Sranan TongoEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

From English you.

PronunciationEdit

DeterminerEdit

yu

  1. your

PronounEdit

yu

  1. you

SwahiliEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • Audio (Kenya)(file)

PrefixEdit

yu (plural wa-)

  1. The locative prefix for noun class 1.

Tataltepec ChatinoEdit

PronounEdit

yu

  1. he

Tok PisinEdit

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EtymologyEdit

From English you.

PronounEdit

yu (personal)

  1. you (singular)

See alsoEdit

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

Torres Strait CreoleEdit

EtymologyEdit

From English you.

PronounEdit

yu (personal)

  1. you (singular)

See alsoEdit

UnamiEdit

Alternative formsEdit

PronunciationEdit

PronounEdit

yu

  1. this (inanimate)

See alsoEdit

Unami demonstrative pronouns
Animate Inanimate Obviative
Proximal Singular (near the speaker) wa, wàn, wàni yu, yun, yuni yul, yuli
Distal Singular (far from the speaker) na, nàn, nàni në, nën, nëni
Proximal plural (near the speaker) yuki, yuk yuli, yul nèl
Distal plural (far from the speaker) nèki, nèk nèl
Absentative (inaccessible to speaker, deceased) distal singular naka
Absentative (inaccessible to speaker, deceased) distal plural nèl
Absentative (inaccessible to speaker, deceased) proximal singular waka

WaskiaEdit

NounEdit

yu

  1. water
  2. river

ReferencesEdit

YorubaEdit

Alternative formsEdit

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

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 termsEdit

Zacatepec ChatinoEdit

PronounEdit

yu

  1. they

SynonymsEdit

ZarmaEdit

NounEdit

yu

  1. honey

ReferencesEdit

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