imu
See also: IMU
English
Noun
imu (plural imus)
- A traditional Hawaiian underground oven, consisting mainly of a hole in the ground.
See also
- kalua
- kalua pig
Aisi
Further reading
- Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975) (as imʉ)
- Don Daniels, Magi: An Undocumented Language (in a comparative wordlist, as imu)
Ede Idaca
Etymology
Proposed to derive from Proto-Yoruboid *ímṵ́ or Proto-Yoruboid *ɪ-ŋmʊ̃́. Cognate with Igbo imi, Yoruba imú, and Igala ímọ́
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ī.mú/
Estonian
Declension
| Declension of imu (ÕS type 17/elu, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | imu | imud | |
| accusative | nom. | ||
| gen. | imu | ||
| genitive | imude | ||
| partitive | imu | imusid | |
| illative | immu imusse |
imudesse | |
| inessive | imus | imudes | |
| elative | imust | imudest | |
| allative | imule | imudele | |
| adessive | imul | imudel | |
| ablative | imult | imudelt | |
| translative | imuks | imudeks | |
| terminative | imuni | imudeni | |
| essive | imuna | imudena | |
| abessive | imuta | imudeta | |
| comitative | imuga | imudega | |
Synonyms
- imemine
Compounds
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈimu/, [ˈimu]
- Rhymes: -imu
- Syllabification(key): i‧mu
Noun
imu
- suction
- undertow (flow of water returning seaward from the waves breaking on the shore)
- Aaltojen imu voi viedä lapselta jalat alta ja aiheuttaa hukkumisen.
- The undertow may sweep a child off its feet and cause drowning.
- slipstream
Declension
| Inflection of imu (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | imu | imut | ||
| genitive | imun | imujen | ||
| partitive | imua | imuja | ||
| illative | imuun | imuihin | ||
| singular | plural | |||
| nominative | imu | imut | ||
| accusative | nom. | imu | imut | |
| gen. | imun | |||
| genitive | imun | imujen | ||
| partitive | imua | imuja | ||
| inessive | imussa | imuissa | ||
| elative | imusta | imuista | ||
| illative | imuun | imuihin | ||
| adessive | imulla | imuilla | ||
| ablative | imulta | imuilta | ||
| allative | imulle | imuille | ||
| essive | imuna | imuina | ||
| translative | imuksi | imuiksi | ||
| abessive | imutta | imuitta | ||
| instructive | — | imuin | ||
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | |||
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Synonyms
- (undertow): paluuvirtaus
Derived terms
compounds
- hondurasinimujalkalepakko
- imuauto
- imubetoni
- imujalkalepakko
- imujuoksutin
- imujuuri
- imukaasu
- imukala
- imukarppi
- imukeräily
- imukeränen
- imukudos
- imukuppi
- imukyky
- imukärsä
- imulasi
- imumato
- imuneste
- imuohjaus
- imupaperi
- imupilli
- imupumppu
- imuputki
- imurauhanen
- imuruoppaaja
- imuruoppaus
- imusarja
- imusolmuke
- imusolu
- imusuoni
- imutahti
- imuventtiili
- isoimujalka
- juovaimubarbi
- madagaskarinimujalka
- rasvaimu
- vedenimukyky
Further reading
- “imu”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
Hawaiian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈi.mu]
Noun
imu
- a traditional underground oven consisting mainly of a hole in the ground
Old Saxon
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *hiz.
Declension
Old Saxon personal pronouns
| Personal pronouns | |||||
| Singular | 1. | 2. | 3. m | 3. f | 3. n |
| Nominative | ik | thū | hē | siu | it |
| Accusative | mī, me, mik | thī, thik | ina | sia | |
| Dative | mī | thī | imu | iru | it |
| Genitive | mīn | thīn | is | ira | is |
| Dual | 1. | 2. | - | - | - |
| Nominative | wit | git | - | - | - |
| Accusative | unk | ink | - | - | - |
| Dative | |||||
| Genitive | unkero, unka | - | - | - | |
| Plural | 1. | 2. | 3. m | 3. f | 3. n |
| Nominative | wī, we | gī, ge | sia | sia | siu |
| Accusative | ūs, unsik | eu, iu, iuu | |||
| Dative | ūs | im | |||
| Genitive | ūser | euwar, iuwer, iuwar, iuwero, iuwera | iro | ||
West Makian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈi.mu/, /i.ˈmu/
Adverb
imu
- (interrogative) who?
- imu ini? ― who are you?
- imu itulis mene? ― who wrote this?
- imu madadi sangaji? ― who became the sangaji?
- imu ma? ― whose? (ma here follows West Makian vowel harmony)
Yámana
Yoruba
Alternative forms
- ụmụ́ (Èkìtì)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ī.mṹ/
Derived terms
- fọn imú (“to blow the nose”)
- igi imú (“nose bridge”)
- ihò imú (“nostril”)
- ikunmú (“nose mucus”)
- irun imú (“nose hair, moustache”)
- yínmú (“to sneer”)
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