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 2009, p. 129:

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

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

     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)

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈutu/, [ˈut̪u]
• Rhymes: -utu
• Syllabification^(key): u‧tu

utu

1. haze, mist (of water vapor)

• The words sumu, usva and utu all describe "visible water vapor lightly suspended near the ground", but at different degrees. Sumu is the thickest and utu thinnest.
• utu is used for haze caused by water vapor - if the haze is caused by something else, it is called auer.

• utuinen

• auer, auder

• tuu

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

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈutu/, [ˈutu]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈutu/, [ˈud̥u]
• 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.

• IPA^(key): [utu]

utu

1. (transitive) to give

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

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

utu

1. Romanization of 𒌓 (utu)

u- (“-ness”) +‎ -tu (“person”)

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utu (u class, no plural)

1. humanity, human nature, ubuntu

• IPA^(key): [ˈu.tu]

utu

1. (transitive) to harvest

• IPA^(key): [ˈu.tu]

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.

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

utu

1. fog

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

utu (m)

1. iron (device for pressing clothes)