tüü

See also: Tuu, tuu, tu'u, and tửu

Gagauz

Cyrillic тӱӱ

Alternative forms

  • tiuiu (pre-1950's spelling)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tyː/

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish توك (tüg, tük), from Proto-Turkic *tǖk. Cognate to Turkish tüy, Azerbaijani tük.

Noun

tüü (definite accusative tüüyü, plural tüülär)

  1. nib, point (of pen)
  2. feather
    kuşun tüüsünü koparmaato pluck the bird's feather
  3. puff, fluff
    Synonym: puf
Declension
Declension of tüü
singular (tekil) plural (çoğul)
nominative (yalın) tüü tüülär
definite accusative (belirtme) tüüyü tüüleri
dative (yönelme) tüüyä tüülerä
locative (bulunma) tüüdä tüülerdä
ablative (çıkma) tüüdän tüülerdän
genitive (tamlayan) tüüyün tüülerin

Adjective

tüü (not comparable)

  1. made from or containing feather etc.
    tüü yastıkfeather pillow
    tüü döşekfeather bed
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic. Compare Turkish tüh.

Interjection

tüü

  1. expresses dissapointment disgust, anger, frustration etc
Derived terms
  • tüülanmaa

Further reading

  • Ciachir, Mihail (1938) “tiuiu”, in Dicționar gagauzo (tiurco)–român pentru gagauzii din Basarabia (in Romanian), Chișinău, page 96
  • Baskakov, N. A. (1991) İsmail Kaynak, A. Mecit Doğru, transl., Gagauz Türkçesinin Sözlüğü [The Dictionary of Gagauz Turkish] (in Turkish), Ankara: Kültür Bakanlığı Yayınları, page 248
  • Kopuşçu M. İ. , Todorova S. A. , Kiräkova T.İ., editors (2019), “tüü”, in Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 5-12, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 164
  • Mavrodi M. F., editor (2019), “tüü”, in Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 1-4, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 81
  • Çebotar, Petri, Dron, Ion (2002) “tüü”, in Gagauzça-Rusça-Romınca Sözlük [Gagauz-Russian-Romanian Dictionary], Chișinău: Pontos Press, →ISBN, page 672
  • Baboglu, N. İ., Baboglu, İ. İ. (1993) “тӱӱ”, in Gagauzça-Rusça hem Rusça Gagauzça Şkola Sözlüü [Gagauz-Russian and Russian-Gagauz School Dictionary], Chișinău: Vivat, →ISBN, page 83

Võro

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *töö, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *tewe.

Noun

tüü (genitive tüü, partitive tüüd)

  1. work, labour

Inflection

Votic

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA(key): /ˈtyː/, [ˈtʲyː]
  • Rhymes: -yː
  • Hyphenation: tüü

Etymology 1

From Proto-Finnic *töö.

Pronoun

tüü

  1. you (plural)
Inflection
Inflection of tüü
singular plural
nominative siä tüü
töö
genitive sinu teije
tedʹdʹe
accusative sinu teijed
tedʹdʹed
partitive sinnua teite
illative sinusǒ teise
teijese
inessive sinuz teiz
elative sinussõ teisse
allative silõ
sillõ
teile
teille
adessive sillõ teille
ablative siltõ teilte
translative sinussi teissi
**) the terminative is formed by adding the suffix -ssaa to the short illative (sg) or the genitive.
***) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka to the genitive.
Alternative forms
See also
Votic personal pronouns
first second third
singular miä siä tämä
plural müü/möö tüü/töö nämäd/nämä

Etymology 2

From Proto-Finnic *töö.

Noun

tüü

  1. work
Inflection
Declension of tüü (type I/maa, no gradation)
singular plural
nominative tüü tüüd
genitive tüü tüije
partitive tüüte tüite
illative tühhü, tühüse tüise
inessive tüüz tüiz
elative tüüsse tüisse
allative tüüle tüile
adessive tüülle tüille
ablative tüülte tüilte
translative tüüssi tüissi
*) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl)
**) the terminative is formed by adding the suffix -ssaa to the short illative (sg) or the genitive.
***) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka to the genitive.

References

  • Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) “töö”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn