wu

From the Wade-Giles romanization of Mandarin Chinese 巫 (wū, “shaman”).

wu (plural wus or wu)

1. (historical) A Chinese shaman.

• UW

• IPA^(key): /wu/

wu

1. Alternative form of we (“1st person plural subject personal pronoun”)

• IPA^(key): /wu/

wu m (uncountable)

1. Wu (Sinitic language)

• IPA^(key): [ˈwuː]

• wuna

wu

1. fruit

wu

1. hair

• Allahverdi Verdizade (2019), “wu”, in Lamboya word list, Leiden: LexiRumah

• IPA^(key): /wu/, [wuʔ]

wu

1. pig

wu

1. carry on a shoulder

• Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid‎, Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis)

• wuë (Eupen, non-reduced form)

Reduced form of wuë.

• IPA^(key): /ʋuː/
• Hyphenation: wu
• Rhymes: -uː

wu

1. (Eupen) Reduced form of wuë (“where”)

• hu (obsolete)

From Proto-Slavic *u.

• IPA^(key): /u/

wu (with genitive)

1. at; at the home, office, workshop, etc. of (compare German bei, French chez, Latin apud, etc.)

wu

1. Nonstandard spelling of wū.
2. Nonstandard spelling of wú.
3. Nonstandard spelling of wǔ.
4. Nonstandard spelling of wù.

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Compare German wo, Yiddish וווּ‎ (vu), Dutch waar, English where.

wu

1. (interrogative, relative) where

   Wu iss die Kuh?

   Where is the cow?

   Nau muss er sei Actions schtelle wu sei grosse Maul iss!

   Now he has to put his actions where his big mouth is!

• IPA^(key): /vu/

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• Rhymes: -u
• Syllabification: wu

wu n

1. The name of the Latin-script letter W.

• (Latin-script letter names) litera; a, ą, be, ce, cie, de, e, ę, ef, gie, ha, i, jot, ka, el, eł, em, en, eń, o, ó / o z kreską, pe, er, es, eś, te, u, wu, y / igrek, zet, ziet, żet

• wu in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• wu in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From Proto-Tocharian [Term?], from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁. Compare Tocharian B wi.

wu m

1. two

• we

From Mandarin 五.

wu

1. five

• Erika Sandman (2016) A Grammar of Wutun‎, University of Helsinki (PhD), →ISBN

wu

1. Alternative form of wough
   • 1927, “ZONG O DHREE YOLA MYTHENS”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, line 5:

     Wu canna baar to gow aveel,

     We cannot bear to go abroad,

• Kathleen A. Browne (1927) The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Sixth Series, Vol.17 No.2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page 131