juu

See also: Juu, 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

• (echo response)
• kyllä
• (colloquial) joo

Further reading

• “juu”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja‎^[1] (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

Anagrams

• uju

Iquito

Iquito phrasebook

This entry is part of the phrasebook project, which presents criteria for inclusion based on utility, simplicity and commonness. For other Iquito entries on this topic, see Greetings.

Interjection

juu

1. hello, hi

References

• Cabeceras Aid Project, Diccionario Bilingüe Iquito – Castellano

Jamaican Creole

See also: Juu

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒuː/

Etymology 1

Derived from English due.

Adjective

juu

1. due; owing or owed
   • 2019, “Recognize Patois As An Official Language; Says UWI”, in JamaicanInsider.com‎^[2]:

     Juu tu ou Jamiekan a di wan langwij we bring evri Jamiekan tugeda;

     Due to how Jamaican is the language that brings all Jamaicans together;

Etymology 2

Derived from English dew.

Noun

juu (plural juu dem, quantified juu)

1. dew, drizzle
   • 2021, “Wa Wi Kyan Lorn Fram Di Sitn Dem We Wi Si Iina Di Sang We Jeuova Did Tel Muoziz Fi Rait?”, in JW.org‎^[3]:

     Di sitn dem we wi a tiich piipl komiin laik juu pan graas.

     The things we teach people are like [as numerous as] dew drops on the grass.

Further reading

• juu at majstro.com

Middle English

Noun

juu

1. Alternative form of Jew

North Frisian

Pronoun

juu

1. (Sylt) Object case of i: you, you all, yourselves

Alternative forms

• jam (Föhr-Amrum, Mooring)

Determiner

juu (invariable)

1. (Sylt) your, all of your (second-person plural possessive determiner)

Alternative forms

• jau (Föhr-Amrum), jarnge (Mooring)

Pronoun

juu (plural juuen)

1. (Sylt) yours, all of yours (second-person plural possessive pronoun)

Alternative forms

• jau (Föhr-Amrum), jarnge (Mooring)

See also

Personal and possessive pronouns (Sylt dialect)

		personal				possessive
		subject case		object case		singular referent	plural referent
		full	reduced	full	reduced		attributive	independent
singular	1st	ik	'k	mi		min		minen
	2nd	dü	–	di		din		dinen
	3rd m.	hi	'r	höm	'n	sin		sinen
	3rd f.	jü	's	höör	's	höör		höören
	3rd n.	hat	et, 't	höm	et, 't	sin		sinen
dual	1st	wat		unk				unken
	2nd	at		junk				junken
	3rd	jat		jam	's	jaar		jaaren
plural	1st	wü		üüs				üüsen
	2nd	i		juu				juuen
	3rd	ja	's	jam	's	jaar		jaaren
notes		The reduced forms with an apostrophe are enclitic; they immediately follow verbs or conjunctions. Dü is deleted altogether in such contexts. Et is not enclitic and can stand in any unstressed position; the full subject form hat is now rarely used. In reflexive use, only full object forms occur. The dual forms are dated, but not obsolete as in other dialects. Independent possessives are distinguished from attributive ones only with plural referents.

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

• chini

Noun

juu (n class, no plural)

1. top, upper part

Derived terms

• juu ya (“concerning, regarding”)

Adjective

-a juu (invariable)

1. high

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	juu
Brazilian standard	fuu
New Tribes	juu

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [hʷuː]

Noun

juu

1. hair (of the head)

Related terms

• ju'jö

 

References

• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “hu:”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes 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^[4], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021