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iu

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

iu

1. I

• Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007), “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, issue 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

Probably from Latin ubi. Compare the obsolete Romanian iuo. Compare also Megleno-Romanian iunde, Romanian unde.

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iu

1. where

   D-iu esht?

   Where are you from?

• iutsido / iutsãdo
• iuva

iu

1. Alternative form of yu

From i- (indeterminate correlative prefix) +‎ -u (correlative suffix of individuals).

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iu (accusative singular iun, plural iuj, accusative plural iujn)

1. some
2. a : when necessary to express indefiniteness
   • 1995, Peter J. Benson, Comprehensive English-Esperanto Dictionary, Esperanto League for North America, page 17:

     Tio ne estas mia libro, sed ĝi estas iu libro.

     That is not my book, but it is a book.

   • 1995, Peter J. Benson, Comprehensive English-Esperanto Dictionary, Esperanto League for North America, page 17:

     kvazaŭ iu saĝa Salomono

     like a wise Solomon

• iu ajn (“any”)

iu (plural iuj, accusative singular iun, accusative plural iujn)

1. someone, somebody

• iu ajn (“anyone, anybody”)
• iutage (“one day, someday”)

iu

1. Romanization of 𐌹𐌿

iu

1. Rōmaji transcription of いう

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qihu, Proto-Austronesian *qiSu.

iu

1. shark

From Old Irish ibid, from Proto-Celtic *ɸibeti, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₃-.

iu (verbal noun iu, present participle giu, past participle iuit)

1. to drink

• iuder (“drinker”)
• iuoil (“drinkable, potable”, adj)

• (phonetic) IPA^(key): [i̯u]
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /jiw/
• Bender phonemes: {yiw}

iu

1. coconut

• ni (coconut tree)

• Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

iu

1. Rōmaji transcription of いう

iu

1. dative plural of ir

• eu, iuu, giu

From Proto-West Germanic *iwwiz, from Proto-Germanic *iwwiz, a variant of *izwiz, whence also Old English ēow, Old High German iu.

iu

1. accusative/dative of gi

• Middle Low German: jû, jûw
  • Low German: ju, jug, jo, jau, u, ugg

• yu

From English you.

iu

1. you (second person singular pronoun)

• eu, jeu
• jù, jò (possibly with external influence)

Variant of eu, jù, jò, possibly due to influence of Italian io, both ultimately from Vulgar Latin eo, from Latin ego.

• IPA^(key): /ˈi.ʊ/
• Hyphenation: ì‧u

iu

1. (first person singular pronoun) I

   iu sacciu lèggiri 'n sicilianu. ― I can read Sicilian.

• In Sicilian speaking this pronoun can be postponed with respect to verb.
• In some dialects it can also become an emphasizing enclitic particle

  Ju ci parrai-ju

  I talked to him.

• tu
• iḍḍu, iḍḍa
• nui, nuiautri
• vui, vuiautri
• iḍḍi

iu

1. Alternative form of yu

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔiw˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔiw˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ʔiw˧˧]

iu

1. (dialectal) Eye dialect spelling of yêu, representing Southern Vietnam Vietnamese.