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Hawaiian
Noun
tumu
- Niʻihau form of kumu (“parent”)
O wai tou tumu?- Who is your teacher?
Iban
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tumu/
- Rhymes: -mu
- Hyphenation: tu‧mu
Adjective
tumu
- early
Maori
Etymology
From Proto-Oceanic *tumu (compare with Hawaiian kumu)
Noun
tumu
- foundation, base
- trunk, stump
- post, pole, stake
References
- ^ Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary, Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, pages 551-2
- ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “tumu”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online
Further reading
- “tumu” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.
Mbre
Noun
túmṹ
- water
References
Sumerian
Romanization
tumu
- Romanization of 𒉎 (tumu)
Ternate
Pronunciation
Verb
tumu
- (intransitive) to dive (into water)
- (intransitive) to dive; to leap down from a high place
Conjugation
Alternative forms
- tum (with vowel deletion)
References
- Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh