mutu
Abu edit
Noun edit
mutu
Further reading edit
- Summer Institute of Linguistics Language Survey of Abu (1975), quoted on transnewguinea.org
- 1998, Otto Ignatius M. S. Nekitel, Voices of Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow: Language, Culture and Identity, →ISBN, page 244:
- [...]demonstrates the range of body parts' terms that Abu' use idiomatically:
- 1. baraka 'head'; 2. naif 'eyes'; 3. naleh 'teeth'; 4. mutu 'nose'; 5. ahaka 'tongue/voice'; 6. elhuka 'neck', 7. numunas 'chest', 8. lakuh 'hands', [...]
Basque edit
Adjective edit
mutu
Bongili edit
Noun edit
mutu
Catalan edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
mutu (feminine mútua, masculine plural mutus, feminine plural mútues)
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “mutu” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Chichewa edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀tʊ́è.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
mutú class 3 (plural mitú class 4)
Finnish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Proto-Finnic *mutu (compare Votic mutukõz (“young fish, brit”)).
Noun edit
mutu
- Eurasian common minnow (Phoxinus phoxinus)
Declension edit
Inflection of mutu (Kotus type 1*F/valo, t-d gradation) | ||||
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nominative | mutu | mudut | ||
genitive | mudun | mutujen | ||
partitive | mutua | mutuja | ||
illative | mutuun | mutuihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | mutu | mudut | ||
accusative | nom. | mutu | mudut | |
gen. | mudun | |||
genitive | mudun | mutujen | ||
partitive | mutua | mutuja | ||
inessive | mudussa | muduissa | ||
elative | mudusta | muduista | ||
illative | mutuun | mutuihin | ||
adessive | mudulla | muduilla | ||
ablative | mudulta | muduilta | ||
allative | mudulle | muduille | ||
essive | mutuna | mutuina | ||
translative | muduksi | muduiksi | ||
abessive | mudutta | muduitta | ||
instructive | — | muduin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Inflection of mutu (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | mutu | mutut | ||
genitive | mutun | mutujen | ||
partitive | mutua | mutuja | ||
illative | mutuun | mutuihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | mutu | mutut | ||
accusative | nom. | mutu | mutut | |
gen. | mutun | |||
genitive | mutun | mutujen | ||
partitive | mutua | mutuja | ||
inessive | mutussa | mutuissa | ||
elative | mutusta | mutuista | ||
illative | mutuun | mutuihin | ||
adessive | mutulla | mutuilla | ||
ablative | mutulta | mutuilta | ||
allative | mutulle | mutuille | ||
essive | mutuna | mutuina | ||
translative | mutuksi | mutuiksi | ||
abessive | mututta | mutuitta | ||
instructive | — | mutuin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “1. mutu”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01
Etymology 2 edit
Clipping of musta tuntuu (“I feel, think, suppose, methinks”), or from German Vermutung (“guess”).
Noun edit
mutu (colloquial)
- poor reasoning or knowledge based on gut feeling or common beliefs as opposed to actual knowledge
Synonyms edit
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “2. mutu”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01
Anagrams edit
Garifuna edit
Noun edit
mutu
Usage notes edit
This noun is either masculine or feminine according to the definite article, le (“the”, masculine) or to (“the”, feminine).
See also edit
Hausa edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Chadic *mawut, from Proto-Afroasiatic *mawVt- (“to die, to kill”). Cognate with Proto-Semitic *mawut-, Egyptian mwt and Central Atlas Tamazight ⵎⵎⵜ (mmt).
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
mutù (grade 3b)
- to die
References edit
- Newman, Paul (2007) “MUT-”, in A Hausa-English Dictionary (Yale Language Series), New Haven, London: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 158.
Indonesian edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Malay mutu, probably Tamil முது (mutu, “vast knowledge”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
mutu (plural mutu-mutu, first-person possessive mutuku, second-person possessive mutumu, third-person possessive mutunya)
Affixed terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Probaly from Tamil முத்து (muttu, “pearl, tears”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
mutu (plural mutu-mutu, first-person possessive mutuku, second-person possessive mutumu, third-person possessive mutunya)
Further reading edit
- “mutu” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Latvian edit
Noun edit
mutu f
Luba-Kasai edit
Noun edit
mutu
Malay edit
Etymology edit
Probably from Tamil முது (mutu, “vast knowledge”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
mutu (Jawi spelling موتو, plural mutu-mutu, informal 1st possessive mutuku, 2nd possessive mutumu, 3rd possessive mutunya)
Synonyms edit
Affixed terms edit
Further reading edit
- “mutu” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
Maltese edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
mutu
Maori edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mutu. Compare Indonesian putus, Fijian mudu.
Verb edit
mutu
- to cease
Derived terms edit
Okinawan edit
Romanization edit
mutu
Sicilian edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Alternative forms edit
Adjective edit
mutu (feminine singular muta, masculine and feminine plural muti)
Inflection edit
Masculine | Feminine | |
Singular | mutu | muta |
Plural | muti | muti |
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
mutu
- first-person singular present active indicative/subjunctive of mutari (“to change, transform, mutate”)
Tumbuka edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀tʊ́è.
Noun edit
mutu class 3 (plural mitu class 4)