olo

Clipping of English Olonets or Russian Олонец (Olonec).

olo

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Livvi.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Livvi terms

From the binary number 010, representing the activation of the middle-wavelength (m) cone cell type, colloquially known as the green cone cells, while not activating the short (s) blue cones or long (l) red cones. Converting the digits 0 and 1 to the letters "O" and "L"

olo (uncountable)

1. A highly saturated impossible color shade of blue-green produced by directly stimulating the "m" ("green") cone cells, approximating the below:

   olo:  

   • 2025 April 18, Nicoletta Lanese, “Scientists hijacked the human eye to get it to see a brand-new color. It's called 'olo.'”, in Live Science‎^[1], retrieved 19 April 2025, Health > Mind > Neuroscience:

• IPA^(key): /oˈlo/ [ʔɔˈlɔ]
• Hyphenation: o‧lo

oló f (plural olaalí f)

1. bag, sack

• (diminutive): oloytá

• E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “olo”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎^[2], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

From Proto-Great Andamanese *wolo.

olo

1. adze

• Juliette Blevins, Linguistic clues to Andamanese pre-history: Understanding the North-South divide, pg. 19 (2009)

From Proto-Basque *oLo.

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• IPA^(key): /olo/ [o.lo]
• Rhymes: -olo, -o
• Hyphenation: o‧lo

olo inan

1. oat

   Ogi hau olozkoa da.

   This bread is made out of oat.

• “olo”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
• “olo”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

From Proto-Finnic *olo. Equivalent to olla (“to be”) +‎ -o.

• IPA^(key): /ˈolo/, [ˈo̞lo̞]
• Rhymes: -olo
• Syllabification^(key): o‧lo
• Hyphenation^(key): olo

olo

1. being (the act of being or existing)
2. feeling, physical or mental state, or how one perceives it

   Minulla on sellainen olo, että tämä ei riitä Erkille.

   I have a feeling that this is not going to be enough for Erkki.

   Minulla on huono olo.

   I feel sick / nauseous.

   (literally, “I have a bad feeling.”)

• “olo”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[3] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

From Proto-Gbe *-ló.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ō.ló/

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oló (plural oló lẹ)

1. crocodile

• oloi

• IPA^(key): /ˈo.lo/

olo

1. to grate

From olla (“to be”) +‎ -o, perhaps a calque of Finnish olo.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈolo/, [ˈo̞ɫo̞]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈolo/, [ˈo̞ɫo̞]
• Rhymes: -olo
• Hyphenation: o‧lo

olo

1. being

Declension of olo (type 4/koivu, no gradation, gemination)
	singular	plural
nominative	olo	olot
genitive	olon	olloin, ololoin
partitive	olloa	oloja, ololoja
illative	olloo	olloi, ololoihe
inessive	olos	olois, ololois
elative	olost	oloist, ololoist
allative	ololle	oloille, ololoille
adessive	olol	oloil, ololoil
ablative	ololt	oloilt, ololoilt
translative	oloks	oloiks, ololoiks
essive	olonna, olloon	oloinna, ololoinna, olloin, ololoin
exessive1)	olont	oloint, ololoint
1) obsolete *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive.

• V. I. Junus (1936) Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎^[4], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 9
• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 362

Lambdacism (d → l) from Proto-Italic *odō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed- (“to smell, stink”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɔ.ɫoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɔː.lo]

olō (present infinitive olere); third conjugation, no passive, no perfect or supine stems

1. archaic form of oleō

• “olo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• olo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

From ulo, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qulu.

olo

1. head

olo

1. (obsolete) past plural of ala

• hollo (obsolete)
• holo (obsolete)
• horro (obsolete)

From English hole.

• IPA^(key): /ˈo.lo/

olo

1. hole, crevice

• ka-olo

• IPA^(key): /o.lo/

olo (active ngolo, passive diolo)

1. to flatter
2. to deceive by flattery; to lead someone up the garden path

• "olo" in Maman Sumantri, Atjep Djamaludin, Achmad Patoni, R.H. Moch. Koerdie, M.O. Koesman, Epa Sjafei Adisastra. (1985) Kamus Sunda-Indonesia [Sundanese-Indonesian Dictionary] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Department of Education and Culture of the Republic of Indonesia
• Coolsma, S (1913) Soendaneesch-Hollandsch Woordenboek (in Dutch), Leiden: A.W. Sijthoff's Uitgeversmaatschappij

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• IPA^(key): [ôːlo]

ôlo

1. that; class 11 distal demonstrative.