tumu

See also: tǔmù, ƫumu, and t̪umu

Hawaiian

Noun

tumu

  1. Niʻihau form of kumu (“parent”)
    O wai tou tumu?
    Who is your teacher?

Iban

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tumu/
  • Rhymes: -mu
  • Hyphenation: tu‧mu

Adjective

tumu

  1. early

Maori

Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *tumu (compare with Hawaiian kumu)[1][2]

Noun

tumu

  1. foundation, base
  2. trunk, stump
  3. post, pole, stake

References

  1. ^ Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary‎[1], Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, pages 551-2
  2. ^ 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

Further reading

  • “tumu” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

Mbre

Noun

túmṹ

  1. water

References

Sumerian

Romanization

tumu

  1. romanization of 𒉎 (tumu)

Ternate

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈtu.mu]

Verb

tumu

  1. (intransitive) to dive (into water)
  2. (intransitive) to dive; to leap down from a high place

Conjugation

Conjugation of tumu
singular plural
inclusive exclusive
1st person totumu fotumu mitumu
2nd person notumu nitumu
3rd
person 		masculine otumu itumu
yotumu (archaic)
feminine motumu
neuter itumu

Alternative forms

  • tum (with vowel deletion)

References

  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh
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