lu

Etymology 2
A romanization of

Noun

 * 1)   or circuit: an administrative division of imperial China.

Noun

 * 1) life

Etymology
From, from , accusative of. Compare 🇨🇬.

Pronoun

 * 1) Third-person singular direct object; him, it

Noun

 * 1) pussy, vagina

Alternative forms

 * (extended form)
 * (extended form)

Etymology
from.

Pronoun

 * 1) you personal pronoun
 * 2) you direct object of a verb
 * 3) you object of a preposition
 * 4) you indirect object of a verb
 * 5) your belonging to me

Usage notes

 * Used mainly in a common situation, especially between friends or by someone older in terms of speaking to a younger person. As for the usage by a younger person speaking with an older person, there is no agreement whether it is appropriate to do so or not: some would regard it as inappropriate, some other would not. Grijns (1991) noted that some Batavians use this pronoun when speaking to God.

Etymology
From, from. Cognates include 🇨🇬, and 🇨🇬.

Etymology
From, from. Compare 🇨🇬.

Pronoun

 * 1) him

Ideophone

 * 1) swinging motion

Etymology
, and.

Pronoun

 * 1)  he/him, she/her, it or that

Usage notes
Lu is widely used in Ido, and not exclusively when a gendered possessive determiner is inappropriate, but also in order to avoid repetition depending on the user's preferences.

Etymology
From, from. .

Pronoun

 * 1)  Second-person singular pronoun: you, your, yours

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) tear

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Verb

 * 1) to offer
 * 2) to donate

Etymology 1
.

Pronoun

 * 1) you

Etymology 2
.

Romanization




Etymology
From, from.

A great number of Muong lects, as well as Vietnamese, had replaced this native etymology with Sinitic.

Noun

 * 1)  thigh

Etymology
Reduced form of.

Noun

 * 1) wolf

Etymology
From, from , accusative of.

Usage notes

 * Becomes before a vowel.

Etymology 1
From the apheresis of, from , from.

Article

 * 1)  the

Usage notes

 * This article is nowadays an obsolete variant, unlike its illiquid counterpart . It is currently used only in some restricted areas where it is still withheld in conversational communications.
 * Today it is mostly used in crystallized contexts, such as singing, poetry or sayings and proverbs. In all these cases this definite article is more euphonetic than the variants, now predominant, which have undergone the lenition of the initial liquid consonant.
 * Its use is however almost undisputed before nouns (or nominalized forms of other parts of speech, most often adjectives) that begin with vowels. In this case the form is an apocopic . Otherwise, illiquid definite articles are phonetically absorbed by the following noun. I.e: l'arancinu (liquid) and ârancinu (illiquid).

Etymology 2
From the apheresis of, from , from.

Pronoun

 * 1)  him
 * 2)  it, this or that thing
 * 1)  it, this or that thing
 * 1)  it, this or that thing

Usage notes

 * This pronoun is now an obsolete variant. It is currently used only in some restricted areas where it is still withheld in conversational communications.
 * Today it is mostly used in crystallized contexts, such as singing, poetry or sayings and proverbs. In all these cases this definite article is more euphonetic than the variants, now predominant, which have undergone the lenition of the initial liquid consonant.
 * Its use is however almost undisputed before words that begin with vowels. In this case the form is an apocopic.

Etymology
From, from , from. Compare 🇨🇬. Related to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬; compare also 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) animal

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) bone

Etymology
Compare 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) big vase used to contain water

Alternative forms

 * lû

Noun

 * 1) fox

Noun

 * 1) head