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su

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

English

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Etymology

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

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su (plural su)

  1. Alternative form of xu (former Vietnamese currency)
    • 1970, Bernard John Hurren, Airports of the World, page 105:
      100 su = 1 Vietnam dong
    • 2015, Kim Huynh, Vietnam as if...: Tales of youth, love and destiny, page 4:
      Old people pine for the days when a serving of rice cost a 100 su coin.

Alemannic German

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Etymology

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From Middle High German sun, from Old High German sunu, from Proto-Germanic *sunuz. Cognate with German Sohn, Dutch zoon, English son, Icelandic sonur.

Noun

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su m

  1. (Issime, Formazza) son

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Aromanian

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Preposition

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su

  1. Alternative form of sum

Awa-Cuaiquer

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Noun

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su

  1. land, earth, ground

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Azerbaijani

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Other scripts
Cyrillic су
Abjad صو

Etymology

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From Proto-Turkic *sub.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [su]
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Noun

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su (definite accusative suyu, plural sular) (countable, uncountable)

  1. water
    stəkana su tökməkto pour water into a glass
    Bəzi ölkərdə əhalinin təmiz içməli suyu yoxdur.
    In some countries, the population doesn't have clean drinking water.
  2. juice
    armud suyupear juice.
    Pomidorun suyu buxarlanıb yalnız “əti” qalmalıdır.The juice of the tomato should vaporize and only the "meat" remain.

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The words and su (and sometimes mövqe) are the only ones in Azerbaijani to take a y in the singular accusative, genitive, and dative cases, and in the singular possessive forms.

    Declension of su
singular plural
nominative su
sular
definite accusative suyu
suları
dative suya
sulara
locative suda
sularda
ablative sudan
sulardan
definite genitive suyun
suların
    Possessive forms of su
nominative
singular plural
mənim (my) suyum sularım
sənin (your) suyun suların
onun (his/her/its) suyu suları
bizim (our) suyumuz sularımız
sizin (your) suyunuz sularınız
onların (their) suyu or suları suları
accusative
singular plural
mənim (my) suyumu sularımı
sənin (your) suyunu sularını
onun (his/her/its) suyunu sularını
bizim (our) suyumuzu sularımızı
sizin (your) suyunuzu sularınızı
onların (their) suyunu or sularını sularını
dative
singular plural
mənim (my) suyuma sularıma
sənin (your) suyuna sularına
onun (his/her/its) suyuna sularına
bizim (our) suyumuza sularımıza
sizin (your) suyunuza sularınıza
onların (their) suyuna or sularına sularına
locative
singular plural
mənim (my) suyumda sularımda
sənin (your) suyunda sularında
onun (his/her/its) suyunda sularında
bizim (our) suyumuzda sularımızda
sizin (your) suyunuzda sularınızda
onların (their) suyunda or sularında sularında
ablative
singular plural
mənim (my) suyumdan sularımdan
sənin (your) suyundan sularından
onun (his/her/its) suyundan sularından
bizim (our) suyumuzdan sularımızdan
sizin (your) suyunuzdan sularınızdan
onların (their) suyundan or sularından sularından
genitive
singular plural
mənim (my) suyumun sularımın
sənin (your) suyunun sularının
onun (his/her/its) suyunun sularının
bizim (our) suyumuzun sularımızın
sizin (your) suyunuzun sularınızın
onların (their) suyunun or sularının sularının

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Basque

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Basque Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia eu
 
su

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Etymology

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From Proto-Basque *su.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /s̺u/ [s̺u]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -u
  • Hyphenation: su

Noun

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su inan

  1. fire

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Descendants

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  • Catalan: socarrat

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Bikol Central

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su

  1. (Tabaco–Legazpi–Sorsogon) direct marker placed before common nouns
    Synonym: si
    Kinua ko na su pakete.
    I already got the package

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Chuukese

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su

  1. to depart (on a journey)
  2. to go

Czech

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su

  1. (dialect, Moravia) first-person singular present of být

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  • Only used in grammatical contexts where být (to be) is used as a main verb; where it is an auxiliary verb the standard form jsem is used. The same speaker would, for example, say "su doma" (= I'm at home) but "dorazil jsem" (= I (have) arrived).

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Estonian

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Pronoun

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su

  1. genitive singular of sa

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  • Used unstressed in a sentence. When the pronoun is stressed, sinu (genitive of sina) is used.

Fala

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈsu/
  • Rhymes: -u
  • Syllabification: su

Determiner

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su f sg

  1. (Lagarteiru) Apocopic form of súa (his, her, its, their)

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  • Used in Lagarteiru before a feminine singular noun as part of a noun phrase.

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References

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  • Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)[1], 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN

Finnish

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Noun

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su

  1. Abbreviation of sunnuntai (Sunday).

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French

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Etymology

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Inherited from Middle French sceu, from Old French seu, from Late Latin *sapūtum.

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su (feminine sue, masculine plural sus, feminine plural sues)

  1. past participle of savoir: known
    J’avais su qu’elle mentait.
    I had known that she was lying.
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Gagauz

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Noun

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su

  1. water

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  • İsmail Ulutaş, Relative Clauses in Gagauz Syntax (2004)

Greenlandic

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Root

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su

  1. Usually has interrogative meaning.

Usage notes

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Like pi, su is not used on its own, but must be supplied with affixes or inflectional endings.

Guaraní

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Number

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su

  1. thousand

Hausa

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Etymology 1

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Pronoun

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  1. they (third person plural independent subject pronoun)

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  • músù (3rd person plural indirect object enclitic pronoun)
  • (3rd person plural independent object pronoun)
  • -sù (3rd person plural possessive enclitic pronoun)

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Ideophone

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sū̀

  1. slithering, sliding

Hokkien

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For pronunciation and definitions of su – see (“human body; body; etc.”).
(This term is the pe̍h-ōe-jī form of ).

Etymology

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From Esperanto si, from French se, Italian , Spanish se, ultimately from Latin , from Proto-Indo-European *swé +‎ -u (personal pronoun ending).

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su (reflexive, possessive sua, possessive plural sui)

  1. self, oneself, himself, herself, itself, themselves (reflexive pronoun, 3rd person, singular or plural)
    La soldati defensis su brave.
    The soldiers defended themselves bravely.

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Ili Turki

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Noun

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su

  1. water

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  • Zhào Xiāngrú and Reinhard F. Hahn (1989). "The Ili Turk People and Their Language". Central Asiatic Journal.

Indo-Portuguese

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Etymology

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From Old Galician-Portuguese seu, from Latin suus, from Old Latin *sovos, from Proto-Indo-European *swoyos.

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su

  1. (Diu) third-person possessive pronoun; his; her; its
    • 1883, Hugo Schuchardt, Kreolische Studien, volume 3:
      Já fallou par su pai aquêl mais piquin, []
      The youngest one told his father []

Descendants

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  • Macanese: su

Interlingua

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Determiner

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su (possessive)

  1. his
  2. her
  3. its

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  • Does not decline on the basis of gender or number.

Inupiaq

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Pronoun

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su

  1. what
    Su??
    What??

Italian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin sūsum.

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Adverb

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su

  1. up, upstairs
    Antonym: giù

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Interjection

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su

  1. come on!

Preposition

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su

  1. on, upon, onto, on top
    Lezione d'inglese numero 1: Il libro è sulla tavola.
    English lesson number 1: The book is on the table.
  2. over
    L'orologio sul polsino della camicia era il marchio di fabbrica di Gianni Agnelli.
    The watch over the shirt cuff was Gianni Agnelli's trademark.
  3. about, on
    Gli italiani non sono d'accordo su molte cose sul come cucinare la pasta e soprattutto sul condimento.
    Italians don't agree on many things about how to cook pasta and especially on the sauce.
  4. above
    La Paz, che sorge a circa 3600 metri sul livello del mare, è la più alta capitale del mondo.
    La Paz, which lies about 3600 metres above sea level, is the world's highest capital city.
  5. in, out of
    Un europeo su cinque avrà più di 65 anni entro il 2025.
    One in five Europeans will be more than 65 years old by year 2025.

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  • When followed by the definite article, su combines with the article to produce the following combined forms:
su + article Combined form
su + il sul
su + lo sullo
su + l' sull'
su + i sui
su + gli sugli
su + la sulla
su + le sulle

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Italiot Greek

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Pronoun

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su (Greek spelling σού, strong personal pronoun)

  1. Contraction of esù (you).
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Japanese

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Romanization

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su

  1. The hiragana syllable (su) or the katakana syllable (su) in Hepburn romanization.

Koro (India)

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Etymology

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Cognate with Apatani , Hruso fu, Idu , Miji ʃu, Khumi Chin si.

Noun

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su

  1. mithun

Ladino

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Adjective

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su (Latin spelling, plural sus)

  1. his, her, its
  2. (often in the plural) their

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For many speakers, su agrees with the antecedent in number, rather than with the noun being described.

Lithuanian

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Etymology

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From Proto-Balto-Slavic *śun, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm, or from Proto-Indo-European *som-. Cognate with Proto-Slavic *sъ(n).[1]

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(with instrumental)

  1. with
    1. identifies the object of a reciprocal action
      kalbėtis su drauguto talk with a friend
    2. identifies accompanying people or objects
      mama su vaikaismom with [her] children
      gerti arbatą su pienuto drink tea with milk
    3. identifies an ingredient, feature, or contents
      dėžutė su dokumentaisa box of documents
      pyragas su braškėmispie with strawberries
    4. identifies time by means of a simultaneous event
      keltis su sauleto rise with the sun
    5. compares two things that are similar/identical
      panašus su tėčiu.I'm similar to [my] father.
    6. identifies the state of a subject during an action
      kalbėti su šypsenato speak with a smile
    7. identifies an instrument (equivalent to using the instrumental without su)
      valgyti su šakuteto eat with a fork

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"Su" can also be used to greet a person on a festival, akin to с (s) in Russian and з (z) in Ukrainian. For example: "Su nepriklausomybės diena" (Happy Independence Day) and "Su Kalėdom" (Happy Christmas).

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  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “su”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 434

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  • Vytautas Ambrazas (2006) “3. Morphology § 8.29”, in Lithuanian Grammar, 2nd revised edition, page 419

Lombard

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Etymology

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Akin to Italian su, from Latin sursum.

Adverb

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su

  1. up

Lower Sorbian

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Verb

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su

  1. third-person plural present of byś
    • 1998, Erwin Hannusch, chapter 1, in Niedersorbisch praktisch und verständlich, Bautzen: Domowina Verlag, →ISBN, page 20:
      Tšochu dalej su Stare wiki.
      Somewhat further on is the Old Market.
    • 2011 September 27, I. Neumannojc, “Sadowe bomy za derjeměśe luźa a natury”, in Nowy Casnik:
      Sadowe bomy w burskich gumnach a teke na dwórach su typiske za naš region.
      Fruit trees in farmers’ gardens and even in courtyards are typical for our region.

Macanese

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Etymology

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From Indo-Portuguese su, from Old Galician-Portuguese seu.

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su

  1. third-person reflexive possessive pronoun: his (own), her (own), its (own), their (own)
    Cad'unga co su teladoEveryone with their own roof
    Atúto qui boniteza, ja dâ unga ucho pa su mai
    Atúto is so sweet, he kissed his mother
    Quiánca ta virá ficá nhum, nina azinha têm su sium.
    A boy is growing into a young man, a girl quickly has her mister.

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  • While êle-sa can be used in a somewhat similar manner as the third-person possessive pronoun, su in particular carries a reflexive sense, as in "his own", "her own", etc.. This is akin to the Balto-Slavic usage of savo, swój, свой (svoj), and so on, albeit usually only for the third person, rarely extending to the second person.
  • Essentially functionally equivalent to onçóm-sa, although this latter formation is less common.
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Macanese personal pronouns (edit)
Person Singular Possessive Plural Possessive Reflexive Possessive
First iou, io, mi*, ieu* iou-sa, iou-sua#, minha, io-sa, io-sua# nôs, nosôtro* nôs-sa, nôsso, nôs-sua# onçóm su, onçóm-sa*, onçóm-sua#
Second vôs vôs-sa, vôsso, su, vôs-sua# vosôtro vosôtro-sa, su, vosôtro-sua#
Third êle, êla* êle-sa, su, êle-sua# ilôtro, elôtro*, olôtro*, ulôtro* ilôtro-sa, su, ilôtro-sua#

#: dated.
*: rare.

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Mandarin

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Romanization

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su

  1. Nonstandard spelling of .
  2. Nonstandard spelling of .
  3. Nonstandard spelling of .

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  • Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Middle Low German

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sü̂

  1. Alternative form of (she).

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sü̂

  1. imperative singular of sên (to see)

Norman

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Etymology 1

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From Old French sud, su (south), from Old English sūþ, from Proto-Germanic *sunþrą.

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su m (uncountable)

  1. (France) south
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Etymology 2

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From Old French sur (sour, bitter), from a Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *sūraz (sour, acidic, salty, damp), from Proto-Indo-European *sūro- (sour, salty, bitter).

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su

  1. (Jersey) sour

Northern Sami

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su

  1. accusative/genitive of son

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology 1

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From Old Norse , accusative singular indefinite of sýr f, from Proto-Germanic *sūz, from Proto-Indo-European *suH-.

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su f (definite singular sua, indefinite plural suer, definite plural suene)

  1. a sow, especially used for breeding
    Synonyms: purke, sugge

Etymology 2

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From Old Norse súð.

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su f (definite singular sua, indefinite plural suer, definite plural suene)

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  • sy (to sew)
  • syl m
  • saum m (seam)

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su f (definite singular sua, indefinite plural suer, definite plural suene)

  1. (dialectal) flow of waves at a beach
  2. (dialectal) a slipstream
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Old English

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Etymology

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From Proto-West Germanic *sū, from Proto-Germanic *sūz, from Proto-Indo-European *suH-. Germanic cognates include Old Saxon , Old High German (whence German Sau), Old Norse sýr (whence Swedish so). Other Indo-European cognates: Ancient Greek ὗς (hûs), Latin sus, Russian свинья́ (svinʹjá).

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Noun

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 f

  1. sow (female pig)

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Salar

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Etymology

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From Proto-Turkic *sub.

Noun

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su (3rd person possessive [please provide], plural [please provide])

  1. water

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Tenishev, Edhem (1976) “su”, in Stroj salárskovo jazyká, Moscow

Sardinian

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  • s' (apocopated, used before vowels)

Etymology

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From Latin ipsum, accusative singular of ipse (himself).

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su m (plural (Logudorese, Nuorese) sos or (Campidanese) is, feminine sa)

  1. (Logudorese, Campidanese, Nuorese) the (masculine singular definite article)

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  • Rubattu, Antoninu (2006) Dizionario universale della lingua di Sardegna, 2nd edition, Sassari: Edes
  • Wagner, Max Leopold (1960–1964) “ísse”, in Dizionario etimologico sardo, Heidelberg

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su (Cyrillic spelling су)

  1. third-person plural present of bȉti

Sicilian

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Etymology

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From Vulgar Latin *ipsu, from Latin ipsum, from ipse.

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su m sg (f sa, plural si)

  1. Alternative form of lu (rare)
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Sicilian articles
Masculine Feminine
indefinite singular un, nu na
definite singular lu, û la, â
definite plural li, î li, î

Spanish

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin suum, from Proto-Italic *sowos, from Proto-Indo-European *sewos, from *swé.

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Determiner

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su (third person possessive of singular, plural sus)

  1. (before the noun) Apocopic form of suyo his, her, its, one's, their, your (formal)
    Vino con su amigo.
    He came with his friend.
    Habló a sus hijas.
    She spoke to her daughters.
    1. used to express an approximate number: about, approximately
      Pesa sus dos kilogramos.
      It weighs about two kilograms.
      (literally, “It weighs its two kilograms.”)

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  • The forms su and sus are only used before and within the noun phrase of the modified noun. In other positions, a form of suyo is used instead:
Son sus libros. — “[They] are his books.”
Son los libros suyos. — “[They] are his books.” (“...the books of him.”)
Son los suyos. — "[They] are his."

Besides being a pronoun, because su occurs in a noun phrase and expresses reference, it also grammatically classifies as a determiner (specifically a possessive/genitive determiner).

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Sumerian

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Romanization

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su

  1. Romanization of 𒋢 (su)

Tarifit

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

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su (Tifinagh spelling ⵙⵓ)

  1. (transitive) to drink
  2. (transitive) to absorb, to draw in, to soak up
  3. (transitive) to swallow

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  • Verbal noun: tissi (to act of drinking)
  • Causative: sessu (to make drink; to water; to irrigate)
  • Passive: twassu (to be absorbed)
  • tissi (drinks, beverages)
  • tassawt (irrigation)
  • tasast (trough)
  • imeswi (drinker)

Tocharian B

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Pronoun

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su

  1. he, she, it

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Tok Pisin

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Etymology

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From English shoe.

Noun

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su

  1. shoe

Turkish

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Etymology

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From Ottoman Turkish صو (su), from earlier *suv, from Proto-Turkic *sub (water). Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰽𐰆𐰉 (sub).

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  • IPA(key): /su/, [sʊ]
  • Hyphenation: su
  • Audio:(file)

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su (definite accusative suyu, plural sular)

  1. water
  2. juice

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The declension of su is somewhat irregular: the genitive form of the singular is suyun and not sunun; also, the third-person-singular possessive is suyu and not susu.

Inflection
Nominative su
Definite accusative suyu
Singular Plural
Nominative su sular
Definite accusative suyu suları
Dative suya sulara
Locative suda sularda
Ablative sudan sulardan
Genitive suyun suların
Possessive forms
Nominative
Singular Plural
1st singular suyum sularım
2nd singular suyun suların
3rd singular suyu suları
1st plural suyumuz sularımız
2nd plural suyunuz sularınız
3rd plural suları suları
Definite accusative
Singular Plural
1st singular suyumu sularımı
2nd singular suyunu sularını
3rd singular suyunu sularını
1st plural suyumuzu sularımızı
2nd plural suyunuzu sularınızı
3rd plural sularını sularını
Dative
Singular Plural
1st singular suyuma sularıma
2nd singular suyuna sularına
3rd singular suyuna sularına
1st plural suyumuza sularımıza
2nd plural suyunuza sularınıza
3rd plural sularına sularına
Locative
Singular Plural
1st singular suyumda sularımda
2nd singular suyunda sularında
3rd singular suyunda sularında
1st plural suyumuzda sularımızda
2nd plural suyunuzda sularınızda
3rd plural sularında sularında
Ablative
Singular Plural
1st singular suyumdan sularımdan
2nd singular suyundan sularından
3rd singular suyundan sularından
1st plural suyumuzdan sularımızdan
2nd plural suyunuzdan sularınızdan
3rd plural sularından sularından
Genitive
Singular Plural
1st singular suyumun sularımın
2nd singular suyunun sularının
3rd singular suyunun sularının
1st plural suyumuzun sularımızın
2nd plural suyunuzun sularınızın
3rd plural sularının sularının
Predicative forms
Singular Plural
1st singular suyum sularım
2nd singular susun sularsın
3rd singular su
sudur
sular
sulardır
1st plural suyuz sularız
2nd plural susunuz sularsınız
3rd plural sular sulardır

Derived terms

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juice
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Further reading

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  • su”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈsu/
  • Rhymes: -u
  • Syllabification: su

Verb

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su

  1. third-person plural present of być
    Woni su na pućowanjach.
    They are traveling.

Uyghur

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Noun

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su

  1. Latin spelling of سۇ (su)

Veps

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Etymology

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From Proto-Finnic *suu.

Noun

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su

  1. mouth

Inflection

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Inflection of su (inflection type 13/ma)
nominative sing. su
genitive sing. sun
partitive sing. sud
partitive plur. suid
singular plural
nominative su sud
accusative sun sud
genitive sun suiden
partitive sud suid
essive-instructive sun suin
translative suks suikš
inessive sus suiš
elative suspäi suišpäi
illative suhu suihe
adessive sul suil
ablative sulpäi suilpäi
allative sule suile
abessive suta suita
comitative sunke suidenke
prolative sudme suidme
approximative I sunno suidenno
approximative II sunnoks suidennoks
egressive sunnopäi suidennopäi
terminative I suhusai suihesai
terminative II sulesai suilesai
terminative III sussai
additive I suhupäi suihepäi
additive II sulepäi suilepäi

Derived terms

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References

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  • Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “пасть, рот, устье”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ[2], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

Vietnamese

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Pronunciation

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Adjective

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su

  1. North Central Vietnam form of sâu (deep)
    nác sudeep water

Welsh

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Noun

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su m (plural suon, not mutable)

  1. Alternative form of si

Western Yugur

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Etymology

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From Proto-Turkic *sub, compare Turkish su.

Noun

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su

  1. water

References

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  • Léi Xuănchūn, Xībù Yùgù-Hàn Cídiăn, Chéngdŭ, Sichuan Minzu Chubanshe, 1992

White Hmong

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Proto-Hmong *sjɛŋᶜ (midday meal),[1]

Noun

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su

  1. noon
  2. the noon meal, midday meal
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

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This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “Not mentioned by Ratliff at all. Perhaps borrowed from Middle Chinese (MC tsyowngX, “to swell”)?”

Verb

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su

  1. to swell, rise
  2. (of bread, cakes, etc.) to increase in volume

References

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  • Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary[3], SEAP Publications, →ISBN, page 299.
  1. ^ Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 283.