gu

gu

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

gu (plural gus)

1. Alternative spelling of gue (“Shetland fiddle”)
2. Alternative form of gu. (“gules”)

• gu zheng (etymologically unrelated)

• UG, Ug, ug

gu

1. water

• Patricia R. Wilson, Ambulas Grammar (1980)

gu

1. (Mpakwithi) knee

• Terry Crowley, The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 186

From Proto-Basque *gu.

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• IPA^(key): /ɡu/
• Rhymes: -u
• Hyphenation: gu

gu (emphatic forms geu, guhaur, gerok)

1. First-person plural personal pronoun; we

• “gu”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
• “gu”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

• IPA^(key): /ɡʷ/

gu (upper case Gu)

1. A letter of the Mazahua alphabet.

• (Latin-script letters) A a, Ⱥ ⱥ, A̱ a̱, B b, C c, Cꞌ cꞌ, Cj cj, Cu cu, Cꞌu cꞌu, Cju cju, Ch ch, Chꞌ chꞌ, Chj chj, D d, Dy dy, E e, Ɇ ɇ, E̱ e̱, G g, Gu gu, Hu hu, ꞌHu ꞌhu, I i, I̱ i̱, J j, Jꞌ jꞌ, Jm jm, Jn jn, Jñ jñ, Ju ju, Jy jy, L l, M m, Mꞌ mꞌ, N n, Nꞌ nꞌ, Ñ ñ, Ñꞌ ñꞌ, O o, Ø ø, O̱ o̱, P p, Pj pj, R r, S s, T t, Tꞌ tꞌ, Tj tj, Ts ts, Tsꞌ tsꞌ, Tsj tsj, U u, Ꞹ ꞹ, U̱ u̱, X x, Z z, Zh zh, ꞌ

gu

1. here

gu

1. this

gu

1. (Erzgebirgisch) yes

• 1882 Christian Friedrich Röder, Unera Hamet https://digital.slub-dresden.de/werkansicht/dlf/101145/296

gu

1. water
2. any liquid

• nyigi gu (“beer”, literally “bitter water”)

• Gerd Jendraschek, in Future Times, Future Tenses, edited by Philippe De Brabanter, Mikhail Kissine, Saghie Sharifzadeh

gu

1. sweet potato

gu

1. The hiragana syllable ぐ (gu) or the katakana syllable グ (gu) in Hepburn romanization.

gu

1. water or any other liquid (beer, wine, petrol)

• Alexandra Aikhenvald, The Manambu Language of East Sepik, Papua New Guinea (2010, →ISBN

gu

1. Nonstandard spelling of gū.
2. Nonstandard spelling of gú.
3. Nonstandard spelling of gǔ.
4. Nonstandard spelling of gù.

• 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.

gu

1. Alternative form of yow

gu

1. (dialectal, Trøndersk, Eastern Norway) alternative form of gud (“god”)
   • 1800, H.Barlien, Trondhiems Budstik:

     De føst Bue: Du ska int ha naakaan framund gu istan for mæg

     The first commandment: you shall not have any foreign god instead of me

• Gu

From Middle Irish go, from Old Irish co. Cognates include Irish go and Manx dy.

Particle:

• IPA^(key): /ɡ̊ə/^[1][2][3]

Preposition:

• IPA^(key): /ɡ̊ɔ/^[1][2][4]
• (Wester Ross) IPA^(key): /ɣɔ/, /ɡ̊ɔ/^[5]

gu

1. Makes an adverb when placed in front of an adjective

   Tha mi gu math.

   I am (doing) well.

• Before vowels the form gu h- is used.

gu (+ dative, no mutation, before the definite article chun, combined with the singular definite article gun)

1. till, until

   Fanaidh mi gu ochd uairean.

   I’ll wait until eight o’clock.

2. to

   Chuir mi litir gu mo phàrantan.

   I sent a letter to my parents.

• Before the definite article takes the form chun and is followed by the genitive instead of the dative.

  Is toil leis a bhith a' dol gu partaidhean.

  He likes going to parties.

  A bheil thu tighinn chun a' phartaidh?

  Are you coming to the party?

• gus

gu

1. that; used with the dependent form of a verb to introduce a subordinate clause.

   Tha mi a’ smaoineachadh gu bheil clann aca.

   I think that they have children.

• If the clause is negated, gu is replaced with nach.

gu

1. Romanization of 𒄖 (gu)

From French goût.

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gu

1. (colloquial) taste (implicit set of preferences), especially esthetic taste

   gu thẩm mĩ

   esthetic taste

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ɡɨː/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ɡiː/
• Homophone: gi (South Wales only)

gu

1. Soft mutation of cu.

Likely from Mandarin 其 (qí).

• IPA^(key):

gu

1. that

   Synonyms: gu-gu, gu-ge

   Coordinate term: je (“this”)

   ngu gu xawa wan-di-yek.

   I am working on that task.

   (Quoted in Sandman, p. 76)

gu

1. third-person pronoun; he, him, she, her, it
2. that

   Synonym: gu-ge

• Erika Sandman (2016) A Grammar of Wutun‎, University of Helsinki (PhD), →ISBN

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *ruʔ, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *rus. Cognates include Mizo ruh and Burmese ရိုး (rui:).

• IPA^(key): /ɡu˧˩/

gù

1. bone

• Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University