etu
Ainu edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
etu (Kana spelling エトゥ)
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Finnic *etu. Equivalent to esi- + -u; originally "the area in front of something" (now all but confined to etu-), from which the other senses have developed through figurative use, perhaps already in Proto-Finnic.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
etu
- advantage
- benefit, interest
- (dated or dialectal) the area in front of something
- (dated or dialectal) front (of something)
Declension edit
Inflection of etu (Kotus type 1*F/valo, t-d gradation) | ||||
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nominative | etu | edut | ||
genitive | edun | etujen | ||
partitive | etua | etuja | ||
illative | etuun | etuihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | etu | edut | ||
accusative | nom. | etu | edut | |
gen. | edun | |||
genitive | edun | etujen | ||
partitive | etua | etuja | ||
inessive | edussa | eduissa | ||
elative | edusta | eduista | ||
illative | etuun | etuihin | ||
adessive | edulla | eduilla | ||
ablative | edulta | eduilta | ||
allative | edulle | eduille | ||
essive | etuna | etuina | ||
translative | eduksi | eduiksi | ||
abessive | edutta | eduitta | ||
instructive | — | eduin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Antonyms edit
- (antonym(s) of “advantage”): haitta
Derived terms edit
- asemaetu
- asuntoetu
- autoetu
- edukas
- edullinen
- edunjättäjä
- edunpalautus
- edunsaaja
- eduntasoitus
- edunvalvoja
- edunvalvonta
- edus
- erikoisetu
- etuasema
- etujärjestö
- etukortti
- etumerkintä
- etuosake
- etupiiri
- eturiita
- eturistiriita
- etuseteli
- etutasapaino
- etuus
- etuvastakohta
- etuyhtymä
- harvaetuhampaiset
- henkilökuntaetu
- ilmaisetu
- jäsenetu
- kanta-asiakasetu
- kauppaetu
- kehitysetu
- kilpailuetu
- kokonaisetu
- kotikenttäetu
- lisäetu
- luontaisetu
- luontoisetu
- materiaalietu
- mittakaavaetu
- omaneduntavoittelija
- palkkaetu
- sosiaalietu
- synergiaetu
- talon etu
- tilaetu
- työsuhde-etu
See also edit
References edit
- Häkkinen, Kaisa (2004) Nykysuomen etymologinen sanakirja [Modern Finnish Etymological Dictionary] (in Finnish), Juva: WSOY, →ISBN
Further reading edit
- “etu”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
Anagrams edit
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Noun edit
etu f (definite singular eto, indefinite plural etur, definite plural etune)
Anagrams edit
Old Norse edit
Noun edit
etu
Pali edit
Alternative forms edit
Alternative forms
Verb edit
etu
- third-person singular imperative active of eti (“to come”)
Swahili edit
Pronunciation edit
Audio (Kenya) (file)
Adjective edit
-etu (declinable)
- our (first-person plural possessive adjective)
Inflection edit
Inflected forms of -etu
See also edit
Tetum edit
Noun edit
etu
- rice (either cooked or being cooked)
Umbundu edit
Pronoun edit
etu
- we (first-person plural pronoun)
See also edit
Yoruba edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology 1 edit
Compare with Olukumi ẹtú, proposed to be derived from Proto-Yoruba *V-tú, *è-tú, ultimately from Proto-Edekiri *V-tú. May either be cognate with Àhàn atu, or Ahan may have borrowed this term from Ekiti
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ètú
Etymology 2 edit
From Proto-Yoruba *e-tu, from Proto-Edekiri *e-tu, ultimately from Proto-Yoruboid *á-tu
Alternative forms edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
etu
- (Ekiti) duiker; (in particularly) Maxwell's duiker
Related terms edit
Etymology 3 edit
Proposed to be derived from Proto-Yoruba *e-tù
Alternative forms edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
etù
Etymology 4 edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
etù
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