ఊపు

From ఊగు (ūgu), ఊచు (ūcu). Compare Tamil உக்கூ (ukkū, “cause to swing”).

IPA^(key): /uːpu/

ఊపు • (ūpu)

1. to cause to swing

ఊపు • (ūpu) ? (plural ఊపులు)

1. swinging
2. a push, one oscillation in swinging

• "ఊపు" in Charles Philip Brown (1903) A Telugu-English dictionary, Madras: Promoting Christian Knowledge, page 175
• Burrow, T., Emeneau, M. B. (1984) “ūṅku”, in A Dravidian etymological dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 72.