tuus
Estonian
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtuːs/, [ˈtuːs]
- Rhymes: -uːs
- Hyphenation: tuus
Adjective
tuus (genitive tuusa, partitive tuusa, comparative tuusam, superlative kõige tuusam)
Declension
| Declension of tuus (ÕS type 22i/külm, length gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | tuus | tuusad | |
| accusative | nom. | ||
| gen. | tuusa | ||
| genitive | tuusade | ||
| partitive | tuusa | tuusi tuusasid | |
| illative | tuusa tuusasse |
tuusadesse tuusisse | |
| inessive | tuusas | tuusades tuusis | |
| elative | tuusast | tuusadest tuusist | |
| allative | tuusale | tuusadele tuusile | |
| adessive | tuusal | tuusadel tuusil | |
| ablative | tuusalt | tuusadelt tuusilt | |
| translative | tuusaks | tuusadeks tuusiks | |
| terminative | tuusani | tuusadeni | |
| essive | tuusana | tuusadena | |
| abessive | tuusata | tuusadeta | |
| comitative | tuusaga | tuusadega | |
Noun
tuus (genitive tuusa, partitive tuusa)
- (card games, rare or uncommon) ace
- Synonym: äss
- (figurative, uncommon) an important figure, influential person
Declension
| Declension of tuus (ÕS type 22i/külm, length gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | tuus | tuusad | |
| accusative | nom. | ||
| gen. | tuusa | ||
| genitive | tuusade | ||
| partitive | tuusa | tuusi tuusasid | |
| illative | tuusa tuusasse |
tuusadesse tuusisse | |
| inessive | tuusas | tuusades tuusis | |
| elative | tuusast | tuusadest tuusist | |
| allative | tuusale | tuusadele tuusile | |
| adessive | tuusal | tuusadel tuusil | |
| ablative | tuusalt | tuusadelt tuusilt | |
| translative | tuusaks | tuusadeks tuusiks | |
| terminative | tuusani | tuusadeni | |
| essive | tuusana | tuusadena | |
| abessive | tuusata | tuusadeta | |
| comitative | tuusaga | tuusadega | |
References
- tuus in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
- “tuus”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *towos.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈtu.ʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈt̪uː.us]
Determiner
tuus (feminine tua, neuter tuum); first/second-declension determiner, with locative
Declension
First/second-declension adjective, with locative.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | tuus | tua | tuum | tuī | tuae | tua | |
| genitive | tuī | tuae | tuī | tuōrum | tuārum | tuōrum | |
| dative | tuō | tuae | tuō | tuīs | |||
| accusative | tuum | tuam | tuum | tuōs | tuās | tua | |
| ablative | tuō | tuā | tuō | tuīs | |||
| vocative | tue | tua | tuum | tuī | tuae | tua | |
| locative | tuī | tuae | tuī | tuīs | |||
Derived terms
Descendants
- Aromanian: tãu, ta, tãi, tali
- Asturian: to, tos
- Old Catalan: tou, tua, tous, tues; (from unstressed) ton, ta, tos, tes
- Dalmatian: to, toa
- French: ton, ta, tes
- Friulian: to
- Istro-Romanian: teu, te, teľ, tele
- Italian: tuo, tua, tuoi, tue
- Leonese: tou, tua, tous, tuas
- Piedmontese: tò
- Portuguese: teu, tua, teus, tuas
- Romanian: tău, ta, tăi, tale
- Romansch: tes
- Sardinian: tou
- Sicilian: tou, to
- Spanish: tuyo, tuya, tuyos, tuyas, tu, tus
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *teum
See also
References
- “tuus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “tuus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- tuus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- how are you getting on: quo loco res tuae sunt?
- just as you wish: arbitratu, arbitrio tuo
- I am sorry for you: tuam vicem doleo
- remember me to your brother: nuntia fratri tuo salutem verbis meis (Fam. 7. 14)
- your crop is still green, i.e. you are still far from your ambition: adhuc tua messis in herba est (proverb.)
- allow me to say: pace tua dixerim or dicere liceat
- allow me to say: bona (cum) venia tua dixerim
- with perfect right: meo (tuo, suo) iure
- (ambiguous) we expect a great deal from a man of your calibre: magna est exspectatio ingenii tui
- how are you getting on: quo loco res tuae sunt?
Sundanese
Adjective
tuus (Sundanese script ᮒᮥᮅᮞ᮪)
- slightly wet
Yucatec Maya
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tùːs/
Noun
tuus (plural tuusoʼob)
Verb
tuus (intransitive)
- to lie (say something untrue)
- 2011, Marga Beatriz Aguilar Montejo, “U x-waáyilo’ob X-Letra”, in T’aan: Narrativa, Poesía y Dramaturgia, Secretaría de Educación del Estado de Yucatán, page 82:
- Chéen ka tuus, wa yan u paalale’ min ts’o’ok in wojeltike’.
- You are lying, if he had children, I would already know.
Conjugation
| singular | plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | |
| imperfective | kin tuus | ka tuus | ku tuus | k tuus | ka tuuseʼex | ku tuusoʼob |
| perfective | tuusnajen | tuusnajech | tuusnajij | tuusnajoʼon | tuusnajeʼex | tuusnajoʼob |
| subjunctive | ka tuusnaken | ka tuusnakech | ka tuusnak | ka tuusnakoʼon | ka tuusnakeʼex | ka tuusnakoʼob |
| imperative | — | tuusnen | — | — | tuusneneʼex | — |
References
- Gómez Navarrete, Javier Abelardo (2009) Diccionario Introductorio Español-Maya, Maya-Español[2] (in Spanish), Chetumal: Universidad de Quintana Roo, archived from the original on 5 February 2023, page 174: “TUUS”
- Yoshida, Shigeto (2009) Diccionario de la conjugación de verbos en el maya yucateco actual (in Spanish), Sendai: Tohoku University, page 82: “TUUS”