uu

uu (upper case UU)

1. obsolete typography of w

• W on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

uu

1. up above

• Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007) “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, number 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.

• u

• IPA^(key): /uː/

uu

1. very

   I ha di uu gärn. ― I like you very much.

• seer
• mega (colloquial)

uu

1. louse

• Kateřina Naitoro, A Sketch Grammar of 'Are'are: The Sound System and Morpho-Syntax (2013)

From Proto-Mixtec *ùwì.

uu

1. two

• Pensinger, Brenda J. (1974) Diccionario mixteco-español, español-mixteco (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 18)‎^[1] (in Spanish), México, D.F.: El Instituto Lingüístico de Verano en coordinación con la Secretaría de Educación Pública a través de la Dirección General de Educación Extraescolar en el Medio Indígena, page 149

uu (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

1. The name of the Latin-script letter U/u.

• IPA^(key): /ˈuː/, [ˈuː]
• Rhymes: -uː
• Hyphenation^(key): uu

From Latin ū.

uu

1. The name of the Latin-script letter U/u.

From Proto-Finnic *uu, possibly from Proto-Uralic *uŋe.

uu (dialectal, rare)

1. hole, nest

• uuma
• uumen
• ? uupua
• uuttu

Derived from English who.

• IPA^(key): /uː/

uu

1. (interrogative) who (asks for the identity of someone; used in a direct or indirect question)
   • 2012, Di Jamiekan Nyuu Testiment, Edinburgh: DJB, published 2012, →ISBN, Jan 21:12:

     “Kom nyam brekfas,” Jiizas se tu dem. Bot non a dem neehn bier fies inof fi aks im se, “A uu yu?” kaa dem did nuo se a did di Laad.

     Jesus said to them, "Come and have breakfast." Now none of the disciples dared ask him, "Who are you?" They knew it was the Lord.

2. (relative) who (introduces a relative clause having a human antecedent)
   • 2012, Di Jamiekan Nyuu Testiment, Edinburgh: DJB, published 2012, →ISBN, Matyu 2:19-20:

     Afta Erad ded, luk ya no: wan a di Laad ienjel dem no jriim Juozif wen im de a Iijip. 20Di ienjel se, “Git op, tek di pikni an im mada an gwaan a Izrel, kaa uu did a chrai fi kil di pikni, dem ded.”

     But when Herod died, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, saying, "Rise, take the child and his mother and go to the land of Israel, for those who sought the child's life are dead."

   • 2023, Yuunivorshal Deklarieshan a Yuuman Raits, United Nations, Aatikl 23:

     Evribadi uu wok av di rait tu gud and fier pie fi mek shuor se im an im fambili a liv a laif we mek im fiil gud bout imself an se im wot sopm ina laif, an kyan get eni ada saat a pie, if im niid it, bai eni ada sopuot we sosaiyati kyan aafa.

     Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection.

• uu at majstro.com

uu

1. Rōmaji transcription of うう

uu

1. (anatomy) breast

• IPA^(key): /ˈuː/

uu

1. Used to express impatience (the lengthier the more impatient).

   uu aqbad u mur! ― oh just go!!

• IPA^(key): /w/

uu

1. Alternative form of w

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qihu, compare Malay hiu.

uu

1. shark

uu

1. (anatomy) breast

uu (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

1. The name of the Latin-script letter U/u.

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Variant orthographies

ALIV	uu
Brazilian standard	uu
New Tribes	uu
historical ad hoc	u

• IPA^(key): [uː]

uu (possessed uudu)

1. cassava bread

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “uu”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[2], Lyon
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 220, 388, 400: “d - udu' > dudu' 'his cassava' […] du:du - his cassava […] u: - casavva [sic]”
• de Civrieux, Marc (1980) “cassava (u)”, in  David M. Guss, transl., Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle, San Francisco: North Point Press, →ISBN
• Guss, David M. (1989) To Weave and Sing: Art, Symbol, and Narrative in the South American Rain Forest, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 28: “u”