Afar

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈtamu/ [ˈtʌmʊ]
  • Hyphenation: ta‧mu

Noun

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támu m 

  1. taste

Balinese

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Romanization

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tamu

  1. Romanization of ᬢᬫᬸ

Indonesian

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Etymology

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From Malay tamu (guest, visitor), from Proto-Mon-Khmer *t₁mu, *t₁muj, *t₁muəj (guest, visitor). Doublet of temu (to meet). Compare to Old Javanese tamu (guest, visitor).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [tamu]
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  • Hyphenation: ta‧mu

Noun

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tamu (plural tamu-tamu, first-person possessive tamuku, second-person possessive tamumu, third-person possessive tamunya)

  1. guest, visitor.

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Javanese

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Romanization

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tamu

  1. Romanization of ꦠꦩꦸ

Kapampangan

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Etymology

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From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tamu (turmeric: Curcuma zedoaria). Compare Tagalog tamo and Balinese ᬢᬫᬸ (tamu).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /təˈmu/ [təˈmu]
  • Hyphenation: ta‧mu

Noun

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tamu

  1. zedoary; white turmeric (Curcuma zedoaria)

See also

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Further reading

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  • Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*tamu₂”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

Kari'na

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Etymology

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From Proto-Cariban *tamu; compare Apalaí tamu, Trió tamu, Wayana tamu, Waiwai taam, Pemon tamo, Ye'kwana tamu, Yao (South America) Tamoucum.

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Noun

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tamu (possessed tamuru, plural tamukon, tankon)

  1. grandfather

Derived terms

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References

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  • Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary[1], Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, page 378
  • Ahlbrinck, Willem (1931) “támusi”, in Encyclopaedie der Karaïben, Amsterdam: Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, page 454; republished as Willem Ahlbrinck, Doude van Herwijnen, transl., L'Encyclopédie des Caraïbes[2], Paris, 1956, page 443

Old Javanese

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Etymology

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Probably from Proto-Mon-Khmer *t₁mu, *t₁muj, *t₁muəj (guest, visitor). Doublet of tĕmu (to meet).

Noun

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tamu

  1. guest

Alternative forms

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Javanese: ꦠꦩꦸ (tamu)
  • Balinese: ᬢᬫᬸ (tamu)

Serbo-Croatian

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Noun

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tamu (Cyrillic spelling таму)

  1. accusative singular of tama

Swahili

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Etymology

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Found only in the Sabaki languages, likely a very early borrowing from Arabic طَعْم (ṭaʕm, taste).

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Adjective

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-tamu (declinable)

  1. sweet (having a pleasant taste)
  2. delicious

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Turkish

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Etymology

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From Ottoman Turkish طامو (tamu), from Old Anatolian Turkish طامو (tamu), from Proto-Turkic *tamu (hell).

Cognate with Tatar тәмуг (tämuğ, hell), Uzbek tamugʻ (hell), Uyghur تامۇق (tamuq, hell), Bashkir тамуҡ (tamuq, hell).

Noun

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tamu (definite accusative tamuyu, plural tamular)

  1. (obsolete) hell (where sinners go)
    Synonym: cehennem
    Antonyms: cennet, (obsolete) uçmak

Declension

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Inflection
Nominative tamu
Definite accusative tamuyu
Singular Plural
Nominative tamu tamular
Definite accusative tamuyu tamuları
Dative tamuya tamulara
Locative tamuda tamularda
Ablative tamudan tamulardan
Genitive tamunun tamuların
Possessive forms
Nominative
Singular Plural
1st singular tamum tamularım
2nd singular tamun tamuların
3rd singular tamusu tamuları
1st plural tamumuz tamularımız
2nd plural tamunuz tamularınız
3rd plural tamuları tamuları
Definite accusative
Singular Plural
1st singular tamumu tamularımı
2nd singular tamunu tamularını
3rd singular tamusunu tamularını
1st plural tamumuzu tamularımızı
2nd plural tamunuzu tamularınızı
3rd plural tamularını tamularını
Dative
Singular Plural
1st singular tamuma tamularıma
2nd singular tamuna tamularına
3rd singular tamusuna tamularına
1st plural tamumuza tamularımıza
2nd plural tamunuza tamularınıza
3rd plural tamularına tamularına
Locative
Singular Plural
1st singular tamumda tamularımda
2nd singular tamunda tamularında
3rd singular tamusunda tamularında
1st plural tamumuzda tamularımızda
2nd plural tamunuzda tamularınızda
3rd plural tamularında tamularında
Ablative
Singular Plural
1st singular tamumdan tamularımdan
2nd singular tamundan tamularından
3rd singular tamusundan tamularından
1st plural tamumuzdan tamularımızdan
2nd plural tamunuzdan tamularınızdan
3rd plural tamularından tamularından
Genitive
Singular Plural
1st singular tamumun tamularımın
2nd singular tamunun tamularının
3rd singular tamusunun tamularının
1st plural tamumuzun tamularımızın
2nd plural tamunuzun tamularınızın
3rd plural tamularının tamularının

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Ye'kwana

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Variant orthographies
ALIV tamu
Brazilian standard tamu
New Tribes tamu

Etymology

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From Proto-Cariban *tamu (grandfather).

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Noun

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tamu (obligatorily possessed; possessed tamudu)

  1. grandfather

Usage notes

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This noun has a suppletive first-person possessed form, kooko.

References

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  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “tamu”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[3], Lyon, page 112
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 289
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “-tamū-du”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[4], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
  • Monterrey, Nalúa Rosa Silva (2012) Hombres de curiara y mujeres de conuco. Etnografía de los indigenas Ye’kwana de Venezuela, Ciudad Bolívar: Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana, pages 62–65, 70, 74:taamudu

Yogad

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Noun

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tamu

  1. direction