uf

uf

1. clothing

uf

1. romanization of 𐌿𐍆

Borrowed from Middle High German huf, itself from Old High German huf, from Proto-Germanic *hupiz, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱeu̯bh₂-. Cognate with German Hüfte, Dutch heup, English hip, Danish hofte.

uf m (plural ufs)

1. (Gherdëina, anatomy) hip

   Avëi i ufs strënc. ― To have narrow hips.

uf m (plural uves)

1. (Fascian, anatomy) hip

• üf (Badiot)

• IPA^(key): (before 13^th CE) /ˈuːf/

Inherited from Old High German ūf.

ūf [with dative (indicating location) or accusative (indicating movement)]

1. on, upon

• Alemannic German: uf, ufe
• Bavarian: aaf, auf

  Cimbrian: af

• German: auf
• Vilamovian: u̇f
• Yiddish: אויף (oyf)

ūf m

1. owl
2. vulture

• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “úf”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

• uf (Rhine Franconian)
• *up (Central Franconian)

From Proto-Germanic *upp.

• IPA^(key): /uːf/

ūf

1. up

ūf

1. upon

• Middle High German: ūf
  • Alemannic German: uf, ufe
  • Bavarian: aaf, auf

    Cimbrian: af

  • German: auf
  • Vilamovian: u̇f
  • Yiddish: אויף (oyf)
• Old Rhine Franconian: uf
  • Middle Rhine Franconian: uf
    • Rhine Franconian: uff, off

      Pennsylvania German: uff

      Hunsrik: uff

• Old Central Franconian: *up
  • Middle Central Franconian: up
    • Central Franconian: op

      Kölsch: op

• Joseph Wright, An Old High German Primer

Borrowed from Old Czech húf.^[1] First attested in 1448–1450.

• IPA^(key): (10^th–15^th CE) /uf/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /uf/

uf m inan

1. (military, attested in Sieradz-Łęczyca) regiment (groupf of soldiers under many banners)
   • 1874-1891 [1466], Rozprawy i Sprawozdania z Posiedzeń Wydziału Filologicznego Akademii Umiejętności‎^{[1], [2], [3]}, volume XXII, Łęczyca, page 15:

     Nec timet opositi castra iuvare chori, gl. przeczywnego vphv, armat cives aquile virtus et viribus implet

     [Nec timet opositi castra iuvare chori, gl. przeciwnego ufu, armat cives aquile virtus et viribus implet]

2. (generally, attested in Masovia) group
   • 1895 [1448–1450], Mikołaj Suled, edited by Franciszek Piekosiński, Tłumaczenia polskie statutów ziemskich, Kodeks Świętosławów, Warka, page 31:

     Vffy a tlvsczaamy (catervatim et in turbis)... do... wszi cząndzacze przystanpywszi, skodlywye... dopusczaacz szą... szmyeyąą drapyeszstwa

     [Ufy a tłuszczami (catervatim et in turbis)... do... wsi ciądzacze przystąpiwszy, szkodliwie... dopuszczać się... śmieją drapieżstwa]

• Polish: huf

• B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “(huf) uf”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

Natural expression.

• IPA^(key): /ˈuf/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -uf
• Syllabification: uf
• Homophones: ów, -ów

uf

1. phew (expression of relief)
2. whew (expression from strenuous labour)

• uf in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Onomatopoeic.

uf

1. ugh

• IPA^(key): /ˈuf/ [ˈuf]
• Rhymes: -uf
• Syllabification: uf

uf

1. ugh, oof (expresses disgust or discomfort)
2. phew, whew (expresses relief)

• “uf”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

From Old High German ūf, from Proto-Germanic *upp. Cognate with German auf.

• Audio:

  (file)

u̇f

1. on
2. onto