limu
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See also: Lìmù
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈli.mu/
Noun
limu (countable and uncountable, plural limus)
- (Hawaii) Any of various kinds of edible algae, which form an important part of the traditional Hawaiian diet.
- 2012, Julia Flynn Siler, Lost Kingdom, Grove Press, page 158:
- The menu included chicken, roast pig, raw fish, seaweed, which Hawaiians called limu, roasted kukui nuts, and baked dog […]
Anagrams
Finnish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
limu (colloquial, dialectal)
- (Southern Finland) soft drink; fizzy drink (UK); soda, soda pop (US) (carbonated, usually sweet, non-alcoholic drink)
Declension
| Inflection of limu (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | limu | limut | ||
| genitive | limun | limujen | ||
| partitive | limua | limuja | ||
| illative | limuun | limuihin | ||
| singular | plural | |||
| nominative | limu | limut | ||
| accusative | nom. | limu | limut | |
| gen. | limun | |||
| genitive | limun | limujen | ||
| partitive | limua | limuja | ||
| inessive | limussa | limuissa | ||
| elative | limusta | limuista | ||
| illative | limuun | limuihin | ||
| adessive | limulla | limuilla | ||
| ablative | limulta | limuilta | ||
| allative | limulle | limuille | ||
| essive | limuna | limuina | ||
| translative | limuksi | limuiksi | ||
| abessive | limutta | limuitta | ||
| instructive | — | limuin | ||
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | |||
Synonyms
- virvoitusjuoma
- (colloquial) limppari, limsa
- limonaati
Derived terms
compounds
Further reading
- “limu”, 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 2023-07-03
Anagrams
Hawaiian
Etymology
From Proto-Eastern Polynesian *rimu, from Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *rimu, from Proto-Polynesian *rimu, from Proto-Oceanic *limut, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *limut, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *limut, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *limut, doublet of Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lumut (compare Malay lumut).
Noun
limu
Sikaiana
Etymology
From Proto-Polynesian *rimu.
Noun
limu
Tboli
Numeral
limu