telu

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *təlu.

telu

1. three

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *təlu.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtəlu/

telu

1. three

• Adul, M. Asfandi (1985) “telu”, in Struktur Bahasa Bulungan‎^[1], Jakarta: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *təlu, from Proto-Austronesian *təlu.

telu

1. three

From Proto-Malayic *təlur, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qitəluʀ, from Proto-Austronesian *qiCəluʀ.

• IPA^(key): /təluʔ/
• Hyphenation: te‧lu
• Rhymes: -uʔ

telu

1. egg; roe; spawn.
2. (slang, sometimes vulgar) testicles.

telu

1. romanization of ꦠꦼꦭꦸ

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *təlu, from Proto-Austronesian *təlu.

• (Standard Maguindanaon) IPA^(key): /təˈlu/ [ʈɨˈɭ̆u]
• Rhymes: -u
• Syllabification: te‧lu

tëlú (Jawi spelling تؕلُ)

1. three

From Proto-Malayic *təlu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *təlu, from Proto-Austronesian *təlu.

First attested in the Kedukan Bukit inscription, 683 AD, as Old Malay [script needed] (tlu).

• IPA^(key): /təlu/
• Hyphenation: te‧lu

telu

1. (Old Malay) synonym of tiga (“three”)
   • 683, Kedukan Bukit Inscription:

     dua ratus cāra di sāmvau daṅan jālan sarivu tlu ratus sapulu dua vañakña dātaṃ di mukha upaṃ

     as many as two-hundred in dugouts, with one-thousand, three hundred and twelve foot soldiers.

• Adelaar, K. A. (1992) Proto-Malayic: The reconstruction of its phonology and parts of its lexicon and morphology‎^[2], Canberra: The Australian National University
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*telu”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

• IPA^(key): /ˈcɛɫu/

telu

1. dative singular of telo

telu

1. one; 1

• https://web.archive.org/web/20170516185153/http://www.ioling.org/booklets/iol-2012-indiv-sol.en.pdf
• http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/20705085.pdf

Ultimately from New Latin tellurium.

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [tɛ˧˧ lu˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [tɛ˧˧ lʊw˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [tɛ˧˧ lʊw˧˧]
• Phonetic spelling: te lu

telu

1. tellurium

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *təlu, from Proto-Austronesian *təlu.

telu

1. three