etu

etu

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Ejagham.

• Wiktionary's coverage of Ejagham terms

• IPA^(key): /èꜛtú/

etu (Kana spelling エトゥ)

1. (anatomy) nose

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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈetu/,
• Rhymes: -etu
• Hyphenation^(key): etu

etu

1. advantage
2. benefit, interest

   Synonym: hyöty

3. (dated or dialectal) the area in front of something
4. (dated or dialectal) front (of something)

• (antonym(s) of “advantage”): haitta

• etu-

• Häkkinen, Kaisa (2004) Nykysuomen etymologinen sanakirja [Modern Finnish Etymological Dictionary] (in Finnish), Juva: WSOY, →ISBN

• “etu”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (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

• tue

etu f (definite singular eto, indefinite plural etur, definite plural etune)

1. (pre-1917) alternative form of ete

• ute

etu

1. accusative/dative/genitive singular of eta

etu

1. third-person singular imperative active of eti (“to come”)

• Audio (Kenya):

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-etu (declinable)

1. our (first-person plural possessive adjective)

etu

1. rice (either cooked or being cooked)

etu

1. we (first-person plural pronoun)

• àtù (“hat”) (Owe)
• ẹ̀tú (Ifọ́n, Ọ̀wọ̀)
• àtú (Ào)

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

• IPA^(key): /è.tú/

ètú

1. (Ekiti) hat, cap

   Synonyms: fìlà, akẹtẹ̀

From Proto-Yoruba *e-tu, from Proto-Edekiri *e-tu, ultimately from Proto-Yoruboid *á-tu

• ẹtu, atu

• IPA^(key): /ē.tū/

etu

1. (Ekiti) duiker; (in particular) Maxwell's duiker

• èkùlù
• ẹ̀kìrì
• èsúró

Proposed to be derived from Proto-Yoruba *e-tù

• ẹtù

• IPA^(key): /ē.tù/

etù

1. (Ekiti) gunpowder

• IPA^(key): /ē.tù/

etù

1. (Ekiti) Alternative form of ẹtù (“guinea fowl”)

   Synonyms: aó, awó, aghó