etu
Translingual
Symbol
etu
See also
- Wiktionary’s coverage of Ejagham terms
Ainu
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /èꜛtú/
Noun
etu (Kana spelling エトゥ)
Finnish
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *etu. Equivalent to esi- + -u; originally "the area in front of something" (now all but confined to etu-), from which the other senses have developed through figurative use, perhaps already in Proto-Finnic.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈetu/, [ˈe̞t̪u]
- Rhymes: -etu
- Syllabification(key): e‧tu
- Hyphenation(key): etu
Noun
etu
- advantage
- benefit, interest [with elative ‘from’ and allative ‘who or what benefits’]
- Synonym: hyöty
- (dated or dialectal) the area in front of something
- (dated or dialectal) front (of something)
Declension
| Inflection of etu (Kotus type 1*F/valo, t-d gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | etu | edut | |
| genitive | edun | etujen | |
| partitive | etua | etuja | |
| illative | etuun | etuihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | etu | edut | |
| accusative | nom. | etu | edut |
| gen. | edun | ||
| genitive | edun | etujen | |
| partitive | etua | etuja | |
| inessive | edussa | eduissa | |
| elative | edusta | eduista | |
| illative | etuun | etuihin | |
| adessive | edulla | eduilla | |
| ablative | edulta | eduilta | |
| allative | edulle | eduille | |
| essive | etuna | etuina | |
| translative | eduksi | eduiksi | |
| abessive | edutta | eduitta | |
| instructive | — | eduin | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
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Antonyms
- (antonym(s) of “advantage”): haitta
Derived terms
compounds
- asemaetu
- asuntoetu
- autoetu
- edunjättäjä
- edunpalautus
- edunsaaja
- eduntasoitus
- edunvalvoja
- edunvalvonta
- erikoisetu
- etuasema
- etujärjestö
- etukortti
- etuosake
- etuosto
- etupiiri
- eturiita
- eturistiriita
- eturyhmä
- etuseteli
- etutasapaino
- etuvastakohta
- etuyhtymä
- harvaetuhampaiset
- henkilökuntaetu
- ilmaisetu
- jäsenetu
- kanta-asiakasetu
- kauppaetu
- kehitysetu
- keskietu
- kilpailuetu
- kokonaisetu
- kotikenttäetu
- lisäetu
- luontaisetu
- luontoisetu
- materiaalietu
- mittakaavaetu
- omaneduntavoittelija
- palkkaetu
- sosiaalietu
- synergiaetu
- talon etu
- tilaetu
- työsuhde-etu
See also
References
- Häkkinen, Kaisa (2004) Nykysuomen etymologinen sanakirja [Modern Finnish Etymological Dictionary] (in Finnish), Juva: WSOY, →ISBN
Further reading
- “etu”, 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 2 July 2023
Anagrams
Isoko
Etymology
Probably from Proto-Edoid *U-thu. Perhaps a distant cognate of Yoruba ètú.
Noun
etu (plural itu)
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
etu f (definite singular eto, indefinite plural etur, definite plural etune)
- (pre-1917) alternative form of ete
Anagrams
Old Norse
Noun
etu
- accusative/dative/genitive singular of eta
Pali
Alternative forms
Alternative scripts
- 𑀏𑀢𑀼 (Brahmi script)
- एतु (Devanagari script)
- এতু (Bengali script)
- එතු (Sinhalese script)
- ဧတု or ဨတု or ဢေတု (Burmese script)
- เอตุ (Thai script)
- ᩑᨲᩩ (Tai Tham script)
- ເອຕຸ (Lao script)
- ឯតុ (Khmer script)
- 𑄃𑄬𑄖𑄪 (Chakma script)
Verb
etu
- third-person singular imperative active of eti (“to come”)
Swahili
Pronunciation
Audio (Kenya): (file)
Adjective
-etu (declinable)
- our (first-person plural possessive adjective)
Inflection
| Noun class | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| m-wa class(I/II) | wetu | wetu |
| m-mi class(III/IV) | wetu | yetu |
| ji-ma class(V/VI) | letu | yetu |
| ki-vi class(VII/VIII) | chetu | vyetu |
| n class(IX/X) | yetu | zetu |
| u class(XI) | wetu | see n(X) or ma(VI) class |
| pa class(XVI) | petu | |
| ku class(XVII) | kwetu | |
| mu class(XVIII) | mwetu |
See also
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st person | -angu | -etu | ||
| 2nd person | -ako | -enu | ||
| 3rd person | -ake | -ao (animate) -ake (inanimate) | ||
Tetum
Noun
etu
- rice (either cooked or being cooked)
Umbundu
Pronoun
etu
- we (first-person plural pronoun)
See also
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| first person | ame | etu |
| second person | ove | ene |
| third person | eye | ovo |
Yoruba
Alternative forms
Etymology 1
Compare with Olukumi ẹtú, proposed to be derived from Proto-Yoruba *V-tú, *è-tú, ultimately from Proto-Edekiri *V-tú. May either be cognate with Àhàn atu, or Ahan may have borrowed this term from Ekiti
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /è.tú/
Noun
ètú
Etymology 2
From Proto-Yoruba *e-tu, from Proto-Edekiri *e-tu, ultimately from Proto-Yoruboid *á-tu
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ē.tū/
Noun
etu
- (Ekiti) duiker; (in particular) Maxwell's duiker
Related terms
Etymology 3
Proposed to be derived from Proto-Yoruba *e-tù
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ē.tù/
Noun
etù
Etymology 4
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ē.tù/
Noun
etù