muu

muu

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

• Wiktionary's coverage of Yaaku terms

mú'ú

1. water

   mùu ǹ ...

   the water of the ...

• Aghem Grammatical Structure: With Special Reference to Noun Classes (1979), pages 13, 18, 38
• Current approaches to African linguistics, volume 4 (Foris Publications, 1987), page 209

muu

1. kingdom

Onomatopoeic.

• IPA^(key):

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• Rhymes: -uu
• Hyphenation: mu‧u

muu

1. moo (the cry of a cow)

• muĝi (“to moo”)
• muĝo (“a moo”)

From Proto-Finnic *muu, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *mu. Cognate with Finnish muu, Northern Mansi мо̄т (mōt), Hungarian más.

muu (genitive muu, partitive muud)

1. other

• “muu”, in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
• “muu”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
• muu in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

• IPA^(key): /ˈmuː/,
• Rhymes: -uː
• Hyphenation^(key): muu

From Proto-Finnic *muu, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *mu. Cognate with Estonian muu, Northern Sami nubbi, Northern Mansi мо̄т (mōt), Hungarian más.

muu

1. (indefinite) other, another

   Synonyms: eri, toinen

   Antonyms: sama, samainen

   joku muu ― someone else

   jokin muu ― something else

2. (indefinite, in the plural) the others (of people)
3. (indefinite) else

   Kaapissa ei ollut mitään muuta kuin tölkki papuja.

   There was nothing in the cupboard except a tin of beans.

   (literally, “There was nothing else in the cupboard than a tin of beans.”)

muu

1. other, another

• “muu”, 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 2023-07-01

Onomatopoeic

muu

1. (onomatopoeia) moo (a sound made by a cow)

• ammuu, möö

• ammua

From Proto-Finnic *muu. Cognates include Finnish muu and Estonian muu.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈmuː/,
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈmuː/,
• Rhymes: -uː
• Hyphenation: muu

muu

1. (in the singular) the other
2. (in the plural) others

muu

1. other, another

• (the other): toin
• (others): toin
• (other): toin

• (antonym(s) of “the other”): yks
• (antonym(s) of “others”): yks
• (antonym(s) of “other”): sama, yks

Onomatopoeic. Akin to Finnish muu.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈmuː/,
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈmuː/,
• Rhymes: -uː
• Hyphenation: muu

muu

1. moo

• V. I. Junus (1936) Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 101
• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 322

From Proto-Finnic *muu. Cognates include Finnish muu and Estonian muu.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmuː/
• Hyphenation: muu

muu

1. the other, another

muu

1. other, another

• P. Zaykov, L. Rugoyeva (1999) Карельско-Русский словарь (Северно-Карельские диалекты) [Karelian-Russian dictionary (North Karelian dialects)], Petrozavodsk, →ISBN, page 111
• P. M. Zaykov et al. (2015) “другой”, in Venäjä-Viena Šanakirja [Russian-Viena Karelian Dictionary], →ISBN

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muu

1. ram, bighorn sheep.

From Proto-Finnic *muu. Cognates include Finnish muu and Estonian muu.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmuː/
• Hyphenation: muu
• Rhymes: -uː

muu

1. the other, another

muu

1. other, another

• Tatjana Boiko (2019) “muu”, in Suuri Karjal-Venʹalaine Sanakniigu (livvin murreh) [The Big Karelian-Russian dictionary (Livvi dialect)], 2nd edition, →ISBN

From Proto-Finnic *muu, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *mu.

muu

1. other

muu

1. (onomatopoeia) moo, the characteristic lowing sound made by cattle

muu

1. four

• John Stonham, Numerals and Incorporation in Nootka (1998)

Inherited from Latin mūlum. Doublet of mulo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmuu/
• Rhymes: -uu
• Hyphenation: mu‧u

muu m (plural *muus, feminine mua, feminine plural muas)

1. male mule

   Synonyms: mũacho, mulo

2. (figurative, derogatory, sexuality) pathic; bottom (man who prefers the receptive role in anal sex)

• Fala: mú
• Portuguese: mu

• Manuel Ferreiro (2014–2024) “muu”, in Universo Cantigas. Edición crítica da poesía medieval galego-portuguesa (in Galician), A Coruña: UDC, →ISSN
• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “muu”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “muu”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG

muu

1. Alternative form of mu

muu

1. water

• Sonya Oskolskaya, Natasha Stoynova, Some Changes in the Noun Paradigm of Ulcha Under the Language Shift, 2017.

From Proto-Finnic *muu, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *mu.

• (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈmuː/,
• Rhymes: -uː
• Hyphenation: muu

muu

1. other, another

muu

1. the other, others

• Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) “muu”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn