tanu
See also: Appendix:Variations of "tanu"
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈtanu]
Verb
tanu
- first-person singular present of tanout
Esperanto
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtanu/
Verb
tanu
- imperative of tani
Finnish
Etymology
Possibly of the same origin as tano.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtɑnu/, [ˈt̪ɑ̝nu]
- Rhymes: -ɑnu
- Syllabification(key): ta‧nu
- Hyphenation(key): ta‧nu
Noun
tanu
Declension
| Inflection of tanu (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | tanu | tanut | |
| genitive | tanun | tanujen | |
| partitive | tanua | tanuja | |
| illative | tanuun | tanuihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | tanu | tanut | |
| accusative | nom. | tanu | tanut |
| gen. | tanun | ||
| genitive | tanun | tanujen | |
| partitive | tanua | tanuja | |
| inessive | tanussa | tanuissa | |
| elative | tanusta | tanuista | |
| illative | tanuun | tanuihin | |
| adessive | tanulla | tanuilla | |
| ablative | tanulta | tanuilta | |
| allative | tanulle | tanuille | |
| essive | tanuna | tanuina | |
| translative | tanuksi | tanuiksi | |
| abessive | tanutta | tanuitta | |
| instructive | — | tanuin | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
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Further reading
- “tanu”, 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 3 July 2023
Anagrams
Kituba
Numeral
tanu
Kongo
Etymology
From Proto-Bantu *-táànò.
Numeral
tanu
Luba-Kasai
Etymology
From Proto-Bantu *-táànò.
Numeral
tanu
Maori
Etymology
From Proto-Oceanic *tanum (compare with Rarotongan tanu “to plant, to till, to cultivate land”, Tahitian tanu “to dig, to sow seeds”, Samoan tanu) from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tanəm (“to plant” – compare with Malay tanam “to plant [of trees etc], to bury”, Chamorro tanom, Cebuano tanom, Tagalog tanim “planting, harbouring of a grudge”),[1][2] from Proto-Austronesian *CaNəm (“bury”).
Verb
tanu (passive tanumia)
- to plant (trees etc, seeds into the ground)
- to bury
- Synonyms: tāpuke, tārehu, nehu
- to smother with something
- Synonym: tāmoe
References
- ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “tanu”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551-559
- ^ Ross, Malcolm D., Pawley, Andrew, Osmond, Meredith (1998) The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volume 1: Material Culture, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, pages 132-3
Further reading
- Williams, Herbert William (1917) “tanu”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 441
- “tanu” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.
Samoan
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tanəm (“plant”), from Proto-Austronesian *CaNəm (“bury”). Compare Malay tanam, Chamorro tanom.
Verb
tanu
- to bury
Ternate
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈta.nu/
Verb
tanu
- (transitive) to cover
Conjugation
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| inclusive | exclusive | |||
| 1st person | totanu | fotanu | mitanu | |
| 2nd person | notanu | nitanu | ||
| 3rd person |
masculine | otanu | itanu yotanu (archaic) | |
| feminine | motanu | |||
| neuter | itanu | |||
References
- Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh
West Makian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈt̪a.n̪o/
Noun
tanu
- alternative form of tano (“sugarcane”)
References
- Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours[2], Pacific linguistics