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juu

See also: Juu, juú, and jüü

Finnish

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Etymology

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Variant of joo.

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Interjection

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juu (colloquial)

  1. yeah, yes

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Iquito

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Iquito phrasebook
 This entry is part of the phrasebook project, which presents criteria for inclusion based on utility, simplicity and commonness.
For other Iquito entries on this topic, see Greetings.

Interjection

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juu

  1. hello, hi

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Jamaican Creole

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See also: Juu

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Etymology 1

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Derived from English due.

Adjective

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juu

  1. due; owing or owed
    • 2019, “Recognize Patois As An Official Language; Says UWI”, in JamaicanInsider.com‎[2]:
      Juu tu ou Jamiekan a di wan langwij we bring evri Jamiekan tugeda;
      Due to how Jamaican is the language that brings all Jamaicans together;

Etymology 2

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Derived from English dew.

Noun

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juu (plural juu dem, quantified juu)

  1. dew, drizzle
    • 2021, “Wa Wi Kyan Lorn Fram Di Sitn Dem We Wi Si Iina Di Sang We Jeuova Did Tel Muoziz Fi Rait?”, in JW.org‎[3]:
      Di sitn dem we wi a tiich piipl komiin laik juu pan graas.
      The things we teach people are like [as numerous as] dew drops on the grass.

Further reading

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  • juu at majstro.com

Middle English

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Noun

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juu

  1. Alternative form of Jew

North Frisian

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Pronoun

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juu

  1. (Sylt) Object case of i: you, you all, yourselves

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Determiner

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juu (invariable)

  1. (Sylt) your, all of your (second-person plural possessive determiner)

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Pronoun

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juu (plural juuen)

  1. (Sylt) yours, all of yours (second-person plural possessive pronoun)

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Personal and possessive pronouns (Sylt dialect)
personal possessive
subject case object case singular
referent 		plural referent
full reduced full reduced attributive independent
singular 1st ik 'k mi min minen
2nd dü – di din dinen
3rd m hi 'r höm 'n sin sinen
f jü 's höör 's höör höören
n hat et, 't höm et, 't sin sinen
dual 1st wat unk unk unken
2nd at junk junk junken
3rd jat jam 's jaar jaaren
plural 1st wü üüs üüs üüsen
2nd i juu juu juuen
3rd ja 's jam 's jaar jaaren
  • The reduced forms with an apostrophe are enclitic; they immediately follow verbs or conjunctions. Dü is deleted altogether in such contexts.
  • Et is not enclitic and can stand in any unstressed position; the full subject form hat is now rarely used. In reflexive use, only full object forms occur.
  • The dual forms are dated, but not obsolete as in other dialects.
  • Independent possessives are distinguished from attributive ones only with plural referents.

Swahili

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Etymology

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From Proto-Bantu *ìgʊ̀dʊ̀.

Pronunciation

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  • Audio (Kenya):(file)

Adverb

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juu

  1. up, above (away from earth's centre)
  2. (by extension) about

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Noun

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juu class IX (no plural)

  1. top, upper part

Derived terms

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  • juu ya (“concerning, regarding”)

Adjective

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-a juu (invariable)

  1. high

Ye'kwana

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Variant orthographies
ALIV juu
Brazilian standard fuu
New Tribes juu

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Noun

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juu

  1. hair (of the head)
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References

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  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “hu:”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “hū”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎[4], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
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