juu

See also: juú and jüü

Finnish

Etymology

Variant of joo.

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

Interjection

juu (colloquial)

  1. yeah, yes

Synonyms

Further reading

Anagrams

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For other Iquito entries on this topic, see Greetings.

Interjection

juu

  1. hello, hi

References

Middle English

Noun

juu

  1. Alternative form of Jew

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 (n class, no plural)

  1. top, upper part

Derived terms
  • juu ya (“concerning, regarding”)

Adjective

-a juu (invariable)

  1. high

Ye'kwana

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, volume 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, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
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