tamu

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

támu m 

1. taste

tamu

1. Romanization of ᬢᬫᬸ

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”).

• IPA^(key): [tamu]

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• Hyphenation: ta‧mu

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

1. guest, visitor.

• “tamu” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

tamu

1. Romanization of ꦠꦩꦸ

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

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

tamu

1. zedoary; white turmeric (Curcuma zedoaria)

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

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

• IPA^(key): [taːm(u)]

tamu (possessed tamuru, plural tamukon, tankon)

1. grandfather

• 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

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

tamu

1. guest

• tamuy

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

tamu (Cyrillic spelling таму)

1. accusative singular of tama

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

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-tamu (declinable)

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

• utamu

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”).

tamu (definite accusative tamuyu, plural tamular)

1. (obsolete) hell (where sinners go)

   Synonym: cehennem

   Antonyms: cennet, (obsolete) uçmak

• “tamu”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Ayverdi, İlhan (2010) “tamu”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı

From Proto-Cariban *tamu (“grandfather”).

• IPA^(key): [tamu]

tamu (obligatorily possessed; possessed tamudu)

1. grandfather

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

• 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”

tamu

1. direction