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Esperanto
Verb
semu
- imperative of semi
Nheengatu
Alternative forms
Etymology
Inherited from Old Tupi sem, from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *t͡sẽp, from Proto-Tupian *tẽp.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈse.mu/, /ˈsɛ.mu/
- Rhymes: -emu
- Hyphenation: se‧mu
Verb
semu
- (intransitive) to leave; to exit
- (intransitive) to end up (to bring to a conclusion)
- (intransitive) to happen; to result
- (intransitive) to appear
- (intransitive, of a celestial body) to rise
- (intransitive, of a plant) to bud; to sprout; to grow
- (intransitive, archaic) to be born
1909, Frederico Benício de Sousa Costa, “Elementos necessários para aprender o nheengatu”, in Carta pastoral de D. Frederico Costa, Bispo do Amazonas a seus amados diocesanos (overall work in Portuguese), Ceará: Typ. Minerva, page 172:Aé usemu Belém upé […]- He was born in Bethlehem
Derived terms
References
- ^ Andrey Nikulin (2020) Proto-Macro-Jê: um estudo reconstrutivo (in Portuguese), Brasília: UnB, page 568
- ^ Marcel Twardowsky Ávila (2021) “semu”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português [Nheengatu–Portuguese dictionary proposal] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, →DOI, page 690
Sicilian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsɛ.mu/
- Hyphenation: sè‧mu
Verb
semu
- first-person plural present indicative tense of èssiri; (we) are.