valu

Clipping of value.

valu (not comparable)

1. (advertising, marketing, branding) Alternative form of value: Pertaining to value for money, or being discounted.

Used in advertising material, brand naming, and marketing purposes; such as naming of discount store chains, discount brand product lines, discount sale events, like ValuMart, TruValu, Valu Saturdays.

valu

1. water

• Donald F. and Sharon G. Barr and C. Salombe, Languages of Central Sulawesi: checklist, preliminary classification, language maps, wordlists, Ujung Pandang: Hasanuddin University (1979), page 98

From Proto-Finnic *valo, probably borrowed from Proto-Germanic *kwalō. Compare Swedish kval (“agony”) and German Qual (“agony”). Possibly a derivation of valge.

valu (genitive valu, partitive valu)

1. pain

From valama +‎ -u.

valu (genitive valu, partitive valu)

1. cast (casting procedure)

From Proto-Finnic *valo. Related to Finnish valo.

valu (genitive valu, partitive valu)

1. (poetic) lightness, light

• valgus

valu

1. war
2. warfare
3. warriors

valu

1. to make war, to be at war

valaa +‎ -u

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋɑlu/, [ˈʋɑ̝lu]
• Rhymes: -ɑlu
• Syllabification^(key): va‧lu

valu

1. cast (process of casting)

• “valu”, 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 2023-07-01

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋɑluˣ/, [ˈʋɑ̝lu(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -ɑlu
• Syllabification^(key): va‧lu

valu

1. inflection of valua:
   1. present active indicative connegative
   2. second-person singular present imperative
   3. second-person singular present active imperative connegative

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valu (feminine value, masculine plural valus, feminine plural values)

1. past participle of valoir

From Proto-Polynesian *walu, from Proto-Oceanic *walu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *walu, from Proto-Austronesian *walu.

valu

1. eight

From Proto-Polynesian *walu, from Proto-Oceanic *walu, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *walu, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *walu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *walu, from Proto-Austronesian *walu.

valu

1. eight
2. eighth

• Te Pukamuna | Pukapuka Dictionary

From Proto-Polynesian *walu, from Proto-Oceanic *walu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *walu, from Proto-Austronesian *walu.

valu

1. eight

valu c

1. Abbreviation of vallokalsundersökning.

• IPA^(key): [ˈva.lu]
• Hyphenation: va‧lu

From Proto-Polynesian *walu. Cognates include Hawaiian walu and Samoan valu.

valu

1. (stative) to be eight

From Proto-Polynesian *waru. Cognates include Hawaiian walu and Samoan valu.

valu

1. Any object used for scraping, skatching or peeling.

valu

1. (transitive) to scratch
2. (transitive, of coconuts) to grate
3. (transitive, of breadfruit) to peel; to skin

Te valu (3.1).

From Proto-Polynesian *walu. Cognates include Hawaiian walu and Tuvaluan valu.

valu

1. dogtooth tuna (Gymnosarda unicolor)

• R. Simona, editor (1986), Tokelau Dictionary‎, Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 425

From Proto-Polynesian *walu, from Proto-Oceanic *walu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *walu, from Proto-Austronesian *walu.

• IPA^(key): /va.lu/

valu

1. eight

valu

1. eight

• Tuuvalu (“Tuvalu, literally "eight standing together"”)

From Proto-Oceanic *palu (“several, some”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *balu.

• IPA^(key): /βalu/

valu

1. Pluralizes the following noun.

• Terry Crowley et al, The Oceanic Languages (2013), pages 90 & 368