juu

See also: Juu, juú, and jüü

Translingual

Symbol

juu

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Ju.

Finnish

Etymology

Variant of joo.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈjuː/, [ˈjuː]
  • Rhymes: -uː
  • Syllabification(key): juu
  • Hyphenation(key): juu

Interjection

juu (colloquial)

  1. yeah, yes

Synonyms

Further reading

Anagrams

Iquito

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For other Iquito entries on this topic, see Greetings.

Interjection

juu

  1. hello, hi

References

Jamaican Creole

See also: Juu

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /d͡ʒuː/

Etymology 1

Derived from English due.

Adjective

juu

  1. due; owing or owed
    • 2019, “Recognize Patois As An Official Language; Says UWI”, in JamaicanInsider.com‎[2]:
      Juu tu ou Jamiekan a di wan langwij we bring evri Jamiekan tugeda;
      Due to how Jamaican is the language that brings all Jamaicans together;

Etymology 2

Derived from English dew.

Noun

juu (plural juu dem, quantified juu)

  1. dew, drizzle
    • 2021, “Wa Wi Kyan Lorn Fram Di Sitn Dem We Wi Si Iina Di Sang We Jeuova Did Tel Muoziz Fi Rait?”, in JW.org‎[3]:
      Di sitn dem we wi a tiich piipl komiin laik juu pan graas.
      The things we teach people are like [as numerous as] dew drops on the grass.

Further reading

  • juu at majstro.com

Middle English

Noun

juu

  1. alternative form of Jew

North Frisian

Pronoun

juu

  1. (Sylt) Object case of i: you, you all, yourselves

Alternative forms

Determiner

juu (invariable)

  1. (Sylt) your, all of your (second-person plural possessive determiner)

Alternative forms

Pronoun

juu (plural juuen)

  1. (Sylt) yours, all of yours (second-person plural possessive pronoun)

Alternative forms

See also

Personal and possessive pronouns (Sylt dialect)
personal possessive
subject case object case singular
referent 		plural referent
full reduced full reduced attributive independent
singular 1st ik 'k mi min minen
2nd dü – di din dinen
3rd m hi 'r höm 'n sin sinen
f jü 's höör 's höör höören
n hat et, 't höm et, 't sin sinen
dual 1st wat unk unk unken
2nd at junk junk junken
3rd jat jam 's jaar jaaren
plural 1st wü üüs üüs üüsen
2nd i juu juu juuen
3rd ja 's jam 's jaar jaaren
  • The reduced forms with an apostrophe are enclitic; they immediately follow verbs or conjunctions. Dü is deleted altogether in such contexts.
  • Et is not enclitic and can stand in any unstressed position; the full subject form hat is now rarely used. In reflexive use, only full object forms occur.
  • The dual forms are dated, but not obsolete as in other dialects.
  • Independent possessives are distinguished from attributive ones only with plural referents.

Swahili

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *ìgʊ̀dʊ̀.

Pronunciation

  • Audio (Kenya):(file)

Adverb

juu

  1. up, above (away from earth's centre)
  2. (by extension) about

Antonyms

Noun

juu class IX (no plural)

  1. top, upper part

Derived terms

  • juu ya (“concerning, regarding”)

Adjective

-a juu (invariable)

  1. high

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV juu
Brazilian standard fuu
New Tribes juu

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [hʷuː]

Noun

juu

  1. hair (of the head)

References

  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “hu:”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “hū”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎[4], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
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