tuso

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See also: tusó

Esperanto

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtuso/
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  • Hyphenation: tu‧so

Noun

tuso (accusative singular tuson, plural tusoj, accusative plural tusojn)

  1. cough

Derived terms

Galician

Verb

tuso

  1. first-person singular present indicative of tusir

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtuso/
  • Rhymes: -uso
  • Syllabification: tu‧so

Etymology 1

From the irregular old past participle of the verb tundir, corresponding to Latin tōnsus.[1]

Adjective

tuso (feminine tusa, masculine plural tusos, feminine plural tusas)

  1. docked, cropped (tailless, short-tailed)
  2. (Colombia) pockmarked
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Possibly onomatopoetic.

Noun

tuso m (plural tusos, feminine tusa, feminine plural tusas)

  1. (colloquial) dog

Interjection

tuso

  1. /ʘ/, tsch (a word or sound used to call or get the attention of a dog)

Etymology 3

Verb

tuso

  1. first-person singular present indicative of tusar

References

  1. ^ az3RGQN”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16

Further reading


Tagalog

Pronunciation

Adjective

tuso (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜐᜓ)

  1. sly; crafty; deceitful
    Synonyms: madaya, mapanlinlang, sukaron, suwitik, higad, buwaya
  2. astute; cunning; clever
    Synonyms: matalino, astuto

Derived terms

Anagrams

Ternate

Pronunciation

Verb

tuso

  1. (intransitive) to make a hole
  2. (intransitive) to leak

Conjugation

Conjugation of tuso
Singular Plural
Inclusive Exclusive
1st totuso fotuso mituso
2nd notuso nituso
3rd Masculine otuso ituso, yotuso
Feminine motuso
Neuter ituso
- archaic

References

  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

West Makian

Etymology

Cognate with, if not derived from, Ternate tuso (having holes, to make a hole).

Pronunciation

Noun

tuso

  1. a hole
  2. an orifice
    mudefete do tusonostril (literally, “the hole of the nose”)
    gua do tusoanus (literally, “the hole of the buttocks”)

References

  • Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours, Pacific linguistics