kumu

kum- +‎ -u; related to kumina, kumea, kumista and kumajaa, likely ultimately onomatopoeic.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkumu/, [ˈkumu]
• Rhymes: -umu
• Syllabification^(key): ku‧mu
• Hyphenation^(key): ku‧mu

kumu

1. rumble

• “kumu”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023

• muku

From Proto-Oceanic *tumu (compare with Maori tumu and Tahitian tumu).

• IPA^(key): /ˈku.mu/

kumu

1. teacher
2. basis, foundation
3. source, cause

• Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “tumu”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551-559
• Pukui, Mary Kawena, Elbert, Samuel H. (1986) “kumu”, in Hawaiian Dictionary, revised & enlarged edition, Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai'i Press, →ISBN, page 182

kumu

1. Rōmaji transcription of くむ

From Proto-Polynesian *kumu (compare with Tahitian ʻumu “to squeeze juice out [of a fruit]”) ~ *kumi(t) (Tahitian ʻuʻumi “to clench one's fist”, Samoan ʻūmia, Tongan kūmia) from Proto-Oceanic *gumu(t) or *gogom. Ultimately from Proto-Austronesian *gemgem (“fist; hold in the fist” – compare with Malay genggam, Ilocano gemgém).^[1][2]

kumu (passive kumua or kumungia or kumutia)

1. to clench, to close one's hand tightly into a fist
2. to hold or carry an object with fingers closing around it

   Synonym: rawhi

3. to close or shut one's mouth
4. to hold one's breath

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

kumu

1. anus
2. buttocks

• Williams, Herbert William (1917) “kumu”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 182
• “kumu” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

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kumu

1. vegetable
   • 1995, John Verhaar, Toward a reference grammar of Tok Pisin: an experiment in corpus linguistics‎^[2], →ISBN, page 433:

     Mekim olsem pinis, orait tupela i planim taro na banana, na kumu, painap, kon, tomato, na kaukau tu.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)