imu

Borrowed from Hawaiian imu.

imu (plural imus)

1. A traditional Hawaiian underground oven, consisting mainly of a hole in the ground.

• kalua
• kalua pig

• -ium, MUI, Miu, Mui, UIM

imu

1. louse

• Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975) (as imʉ)
• Don Daniels, Magi: An Undocumented Language (in a comparative wordlist, as imu)

Proposed to derive from Proto-Yoruboid *ímṵ́ or Proto-Yoruboid *ɪ-ŋmʊ̃́. Cognate with Igbo imi, Yoruba imú, and Igala ímọ́

• IPA^(key): /ī.mú/

imú

1. nose

• Baloubi, Désiré (2005) The Morphophonemics of the Idaacha dialect of Yoruba‎, Charlotte, North Carolina: Conquering Books, →DOI, →ISBN, page 41

From imema (“to suck”) +‎ -u. Cognate to Finnish imu.

imu (genitive imu, partitive imu)

1. suction, sucking

• imemine

• rasvaimu

From the verb imeä (“to suck”) +‎ -u.

• IPA^(key): /ˈimu/,
• Rhymes: -imu
• Hyphenation^(key): imu

imu

1. suction
2. undertow (flow of water returning seaward from the waves breaking on the shore)

   Aaltojen imu voi viedä lapselta jalat alta ja aiheuttaa hukkumisen.

   The undertow may sweep a child off its feet and cause drowning.

3. slipstream

• (undertow): paluuvirtaus

• “imu”, 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

• IPA^(key): /ˈi.mu/

imu

1. imu (a traditional Hawaiian underground oven, consisting mainly of a hole in the ground)

imu

1. Rōmaji transcription of いむ

From Proto-Germanic *hiz.

imu (imu)

1. dative of hē: him; to him

• Middle Low German: ime, eme, ome, gim, jum, um
  • Dutch Low Saxon: em, um
  • German Low German: em, äm
  • Plautdietsch: am

• IPA^(key): /ˈi.mu/, /i.ˈmu/

imu

1. (interrogative) who?

   imu ini? ― who are you?

   imu itulis mene? ― who wrote this?

   imu madadi sangaji? ― who became the sangaji?

   imu ma? ― whose? (ma here follows West Makian vowel harmony)

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics
• James Collins (1982) Further Notes Towards a West Makian Vocabulary‎, Pacific linguistics

imu

1. father

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agbárí ọpọlọ ojú ètè imú ẹnu àgbọ̀n ẹ̀rẹ̀kẹ́ etí ìdètí ọrùn
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Proposed to derive from Proto-Yoruboid *ɪ́-ŋmʊ̃́. Cognate with Igbo imi and Igala ímọ́

• IPA^(key): /ī.mṹ/

imú

1. nose