limu

 

 Limu (algae) on Wikipedia

From Hawaiian limu (“moss”).

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈli.mu/

limu (countable and uncountable, plural limus)

1. (Hawaii) Any of various kinds of edible algae, which form an important part of the traditional Hawaiian diet.
   • 2012, Julia Flynn Siler, Lost Kingdom, Grove Press, page 158:

     The menu included chicken, roast pig, raw fish, seaweed, which Hawaiians called limu, roasted kukui nuts, and baked dog […]

• IUML, milu, muli

Clipping of limunaati

• IPA^(key): /ˈlimu/, [ˈlimu]
• Rhymes: -imu
• Hyphenation^(key): li‧mu

limu (colloquial, dialectal)

1. (Southern Finland) soft drink; fizzy drink (UK); soda, soda pop (US) (carbonated, usually sweet, non-alcoholic drink)

• virvoitusjuoma
• (colloquial) limppari, limsa
• limonaati

• “limu”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

• Lumi, lumi, muli

From Proto-Eastern Polynesian *rimu, from Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *rimu, from Proto-Polynesian *rimu, from Proto-Oceanic *limut, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *limut, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *limut, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *limut, doublet of Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lumut (compare Malay lumut).

limu

1. moss (plants of the division Bryophyta)
2. seaweed

• IPA^(key): /ˈli.mu/

limu

1. nominative/accusative plural of lim

From Proto-Polynesian *rimu.

limu

1. moss (plants of the division Bryophyta), seagrass

limu

1. five