vuo

Borrowed from Polish wu, chosen for being similar to kuo (“Q”).

Coined by Sergio Pokrovskij in Komputika Leksikono in 1995 as a less ambiguous alternative to the more common names duobla vo (which can be taken to mean "vv") and vavo (which can also be used for the Hebrew letter vav or the Arabic letter waw).

• IPA^(key):
• Rhymes: -uo
• Hyphenation: vu‧o

vuo (accusative singular vuon, plural vuoj, accusative plural vuojn)

1. (rare) The name of the Latin-script letter W/w.
   • 1996 March 31, Sergio Pokrovskij, “Re: Kiel nomi fizikajn unuojn?”, in soc.culture.esperanto‎ (Usenet):

     Por malambiguigi w/v mi proponis (en la Komputika leksikono) nomi W vuo

     To disambiguate w/v I proposed (in La Komputika Leksikono) to call W vuo

   • 2004 February 13, Roel Haveman, “Re: nomoj de la literoj 'w', hispana 'ñ' kaj portugala 'ç'”, in soc.culture.esperanto‎ (Usenet):

     Lau mi oni kutime diras "kuo" kaj ne "ku". Tial "vuo" estas pli tauga ol "vu", chu ne?

     I believe people usually say "kuo" and not "ku". That's why "vuo" is better than "vu", right?

   • 2013, Jorge Camacho, “x, w, y”, in En La Profundo‎, page 117:

     en la sensolva ekvacio de ies vivodaŭro pronomoj (vi, ni, ŝi) kaj verboj (ami, ami?, ami!) estas iksoj, vuoj, ipsilonoj

     in the solutionless equation of someone's lifespan, pronouns (you, we, she) and verbs (to love, to love?, to love!) are exes, double-ues, wyes

The o is occasionally dropped, usually when spelling out words, e.g. "vu vu vu" for "www", or "vu i ko i" for the English word "wiki".

• duobla vo
• (rare) ĝermana vo
• vavo
• (rare) vu

From Proto-Finnic *voo, from Proto-Uralic *uwa (“current, flow”).^[1][2][3]

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋuo̯/,
• Rhymes: -uo
• Syllabification^(key): vuo

vuo

1. (literary) stream, river

   Synonym: virta

2. (literary) flow, current

   Synonyms: virtaus, virta

3. (technical) flow (formalization or abstraction of fluid flow, e.g. in a flowchart or in graph theory)
4. (physics) flux (rate of transfer of energy)

• “vuo”, 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

From Proto-Finnic *voo. Cognates include Finnish vuo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋuo̯/
• Hyphenation: vuo
• Rhymes: -uo̯

vuo (genitive vuon, partitive vuodu)

1. flow, current

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