yu

• IPA^(key): /juː/
• Rhymes: -uː
• Homophones: you, yew, ewe

From Chinese 玉 (yù).

yu (countable and uncountable, plural yu)

1. (archaeology, countable) An ancient Chinese wine-bucket, often having a decorative cover.
   • 1962, William Watson, Ancient Chinese Bronzes, page 34:

     A group of slenderer yu also survive from the Shang into the early Chou period, though they are rarer than the other design […] A yu with square body in the Hakuzuru Museum is the finest of these.

2. (archaic, uncountable) Jade, nephrite or jadeite.
   • 1818, Clarke Abel, Narrative of a Journey in the Interior of China, page 133:

     The Yu, although of the hardness of rock crystal, is worked into an endless variety of forms […]

   • 1826, The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British India and Its Dependencies:

     Another stone with which it would be interesting to compare it is the celebrated yu stone of the Chinese, which Dr. Abel, in his work on China, conjectured to be a species of nephrite […]

See you.

yu

1. Eye dialect spelling of you.

From Russian ю (ju).

yu (plural yus)

1. The letter Ю, ю.

• Uy

• IPA^(key): /ju/

yu

1. mountain, hill

yu

1. alternative form of yuw

• Loanwords in Takia, in Loanwords in the World's Languages: A Comparative Handbook (edited by Martin Haspelmath, Uri Tadmor), page 761

From English you.

yu

1. you (second-person singular pronoun)

yu

1. your (second-person singular possessive pronoun)

• Crosbie, Paul, ed. (2007), Kriol-Inglish Dikshineri: English-Kriol Dictionary. Belize City: Belize Kriol Project, p. 379.

From English you. Cognate with Tok Pisin yu.

• IPA^(key): /ˈju/
• Hyphenation: yu

yu

1. thou, you (singular)

• Terry Crowley (2004) Bislama Reference Grammar, Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi press, →ISBN, page 46

yu

1. alternative spelling of you (“2nd person singular subject and object personal pronoun”)

yu

1. water

• Transnewguinea.org, citing Shaw (1973) (see Pacific Linguistics, edited by Karl James Franklin, 1973)

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “probably from Javanese or Chinese”)

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈju/ [ˈju]
• Rhymes: -u
• Syllabification: yu

yu

1. (dialectal) older sister

   Synonym: (dialectal) mbakyu

yu

1. alternative spelling of yuh

yu

1. The hiragana syllable ゆ (yu) or the katakana syllable ユ (yu) in Hepburn romanization.

From Vietnamese dù.

yu (classifier pŏk)

1. parachute

yu

1. water

• transnewguinea.org, citing G. Reesink Languages of the Aramia River Area (1976), Papers in New Guinea Linguistics No. 19
• Possible Cognates Between Kamula and Pa, chart 10, page 16, in Papers in New Guinea Linguistics, issues 17-20 (1990)

• yo
• ye

Compare Tagalog iyo / iyon.

yu

1. (in the plural) you
2. (honorific singular) you

   Pakilawen yu pu. ― Let's have a look.

   Ikuwa yo. ― Did y'all get it?!

3. He; She; that
4. (colloquial) it

   Palako ne anya mako nakurin.

   S/he's about to leave that's why I'm leaving as well.

   Atiyu nayu.

   It's here.

yu

1. A particle attached with na to show respect to the listener in the polite style.

   Ninu nayo?

   Who is it?

   Mengan nayu.

   S/he already ate.

2. Indicates emphasis.

   Sabian munayo.

   Please, tell me!

   Alinayu.

   There's no need for that.

• The word yu changes to yo if it is an exclamation or a question.
• When speaking to be formal, follow it with pu at the end.

yu

1. water

• Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)

• hiu (obsolete in Malay, standard in Indonesian)

From hiu, from Proto-Malayic *hiu(ʔ), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qihu, from Proto-Austronesian *qiSu.

• IPA^(key): /ˈju/ [ˈju]
• Rhymes: -u
• Hyphenation: yu

yu (Jawi spelling يو, plural yu-yu)

1. A shark (scaleless cartilaginous fish).

   Synonym: jerung

   Ikan yu ialah seekor haiwan akuatik yang sangat kuat gigitannya.

   The shark is an aquatic animal whose bites are very strong.

• “yu” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

yu

1. nonstandard spelling of yū
2. nonstandard spelling of yú
3. nonstandard spelling of yǔ
4. nonstandard spelling of yù

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

yu (Raguileo spelling)

1. (anatomy) nose

• Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.

yu

1. (chiefly Northern) alternative form of yow

yu

1. sun
2. day

From English you.

yu

1. you

• yiu (alternative spelling)

Comes from Old Papiamentu "joego", from Spanish hijo. Compare and Kabuverdianu fidju "child" (ac Jacobs).

yu

1. child (of parents)

yu

1. alternative form of iu

From Proto-Nuristani *ko < earlier *kawa. Compare Ashkun këvā, Kamkata-viri kavo, këvo, Waigali kavā.

• IPA^(key): /ju/ (tone class A)

yu (Pronz)^[1]

1. basket

• i

From English you.

• IPA^(key): /ju/, /i/
• IPA^(key): /i/

yu

1. your

yu

1. you

• Aukan: yu
• >? Maroon Spirit Language: i
• Saramaccan: yu

yu

1. (dated or literary) positive degree present and gnomic third-person singular m class_(I) of -wa (“he/she is”)
   • (Can we date this quote?), “Umechoka Umesumbuka”:

     Mwambie Yesu sumbuko lako, yu rafiki amini

     Tell Jesus your trouble; [he] is a friend, trust it

Borrowed from English u, the English name of the letter U / u.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ju/ [jʊ]
• Rhymes: -u
• Syllabification: yu
• Homophone: Yu

yu (Baybayin spelling ᜌᜓ)

1. the name of the Latin-script letter U/u, in the Filipino alphabet

   Synonym: (in the Abakada alphabet and the Abecedario) u

• (Latin-script letter names) titik; ey, bi, si, di, i, ef, dyi, eyts, ay, dyey, key, el, em, en, enye, en dyi, o, pi, kyu, ar, es, ti, yu, vi, dobolyu, eks, way, zi

• “yu”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

• uy, Uy

yu

1. he

From English you.

yu (personal)

1. you (singular)
   • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 2:16:

     Na God i tokim man olsem, “Yu ken kaikai pikinini bilong olgeta diwai bilong dispela gaden.

     →New International Version translation

From English you.

yu (personal)

1. you (singular)

• yutu
• yupla

• yun

• IPA^(key): [ju]

yu

1. this (inanimate)

yu

1. water
2. river

• Waskia dictionary (SIL)

• yún
• jú (Ào)
• hú (Eastern Àkókó)

• IPA^(key): /jú/

yú

1. (Ekiti, Idanre, Ondo, Ọwọ, Ikalẹ, Usẹn) to go

   Synonyms: lọ, rè

   Me è yú ― I will not go (Èkìtì)

   Ùwọ ó yú ín. ― It was you who went. (Ìkálẹ̀)

• yúbẹ̀ (“to go there”)

yu

1. they

• neʔ

yu

1. honey

• David Bellama, Cours de Zarma pour le Niger: trainee's book (1976)