utu

Borrowed from Maori utu.

utu (uncountable)

1. (New Zealand) Recompense, payback; revenge.
   • 2008, Christina Thompson, Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All, Bloomsbury, published 2009, page 129:

     Utu demanded that both favors and grievances be repaid in kind, but it was the grievances, naturally, that caused the most trouble.

   • 2011 September 19, Andrew Alderson, New Zealand Herald:

     The match had been touted as a chance for utu after the 1999 and 2007 All Blacks World Cup defeats.

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kutu, from Proto-Austronesian *kuCu.

utu

1. louse (insect)

Finnish Wikipedia has an article on:

utu

Wikipedia ^fi

From Proto-Finnic *utu, probably borrowed from Proto-Germanic (compare Icelandic úði (“drizzle”)).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈutu/,
• Rhymes: -utu
• Hyphenation^(key): utu

utu

1. haze, mist (of water vapor)

• The words sumu, usva and utu all describe "water vapor lightly suspended near the ground", but – strictly speaking – at different degrees. However, they may often be used synonymously with no discretion.
  • Utu describes very light vapor near the ground, especially that occurring in the morning and therefore it is translated usually as "mist" or "haze".
  • Usva describes a bit thicker vapor than utu near the ground, especially when considering the water travelling conditions. Therefore, it is translated usually as "mist", "haze" or "fog".
  • Sumu describes very thick vapor obscuring the visibility near the ground and thus, it is translated usually as "mist" or "fog".
• utu is used for haze caused by water vapor - if the haze is caused by something else, it is called auer.

• auer, auder

• “utu”, 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 2023-07-04

• tuu

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kutu.

utu

1. louse

From Proto-Finnic *utu. Cognates include Finnish utu and Estonian udu.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈutu/,
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈutu/,
• Rhymes: -utu
• Hyphenation: u‧tu

utu

1. Synonym of tomakka

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 620

From Proto-Polynesian, from Proto-Oceanic, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *utuŋ (compare Hawaiian uku, Malay untung).

utu

1. pay; payment; salary
2. revenge; payback

utu (passive utua or utungia)

1. to pay
2. to reply; to answer

• Describes reciprocal obligations.

• “utu” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

From Sanskrit ऋतु (ṛtu, “appointed time”).

utu m or n

1. season, time
2. season (one of the three seasons of the year)

utu m

1. menses

• Pali Text Society (1921–1925) “utu”, in Pali-English Dictionary‎, London: Chipstead

utu

1. Romanization of 𒌓 (utu)

Swahili Wikipedia has an article on:

utu

Wikipedia ^sw

From u- (“-ness”) +‎ -tu (“person”).

• Audio (Kenya):

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utu class XI (no plural)

1. humanity, human nature, ubuntu

• IPA^(key):

utu

1. (transitive) to harvest

• IPA^(key):

utu

1. a kind of small squid

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

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kutu, compare Indonesian kutu.

utu

1. louse

From Proto-Finnic *utu.

• (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈutu/,
• Rhymes: -utu
• Hyphenation: u‧tu

utu

1. fog

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

Possibly compare Ternate wito, Sahu itomo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈu.t̪u/

utu

1. (transitive) to push

Cognate with Ternate utu (“root”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈu.t̪u/

utu

1. root (of a tree), vein

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

From Proto-Cariban *utu (“to give, to put”).

• IPA^(key):

utu

1. (transitive) to give

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “utu”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎, Lyon
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 219, 315, 400: “utu:du 'to give' […] -utu- 'give' […] utu:du - to give”
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “utūdu”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021

utu (m)

1. iron (device for pressing clothes)