cu
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cu
cu
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cu f (plural cus)
cu (upper case Cu)
cu
cu m (plural cus)
From Old Galician-Portuguese cuu, from Latin cūlum (“ass”). Cognate with Portuguese cu.
cu m (plural cus)
cu m
cu m or f (invariable)
cu
cu
cu (plural ky)
cu m
cu
cu
cu f (plural cus)
From Proto-West Germanic *kō (“cow”).
cū f (nominative plural cȳ)
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese cuu (“ass”), from Latin cūlum. Compare Galician cu, Spanish and Italian culo, French cul, and Romanian cur.
cu m (plural cus)
cu m or f (invariable)
Inherited from Latin cum, from Proto-Italic *kom, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“next to, at, with, along”).
cu (+accusative)
Cu is the only preposition (other than very specific uses of pe and la) that can be followed by an articulated noun without any modifier (an adjective or a possessive or demonstrative pronoun, primarily).
cu
From Latin cum. Compare Italian con.
cu
From an inflection of Latin quis. Akin to chi and ca.
cu
Borrowed from Spanish cu, the Spanish name of the letter Q/q.
cu (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜓ) (historical)
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cu
From Proto-Vietic *t-kuː (“dove”); ultimately onomatopoeic. Cognate with Kha Phong təkuː¹. Compare Thai เขา (kǎo), Chinese 鳩 (OC *[k](r)u) (B-S), Burmese ခို (hkui), English coo.
This is the form without both diphthongization and lenition. Also in common use are câu, bồ câu, both with diphthongization. The form gâu (in chim gâu) with both diphthongization and lenition is also attested.
From etymology 1. For semantic relationship, compare English cock, Chinese 屌 (diǎo), 鳥/鸟 (“bird”), Cantonese 㞗, 鳩/鸠 (“pigeon”), Thai นกเขา (nók-kǎo, “pigeon”). Also see cò, chim.
(classifier con) cu
From Middle Welsh ku, from Proto-Brythonic *kʉβ̃ (compare Breton kuñv), from Proto-Celtic *koimos (“dear, nice”) (compare Old Irish cóem), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóymos (“of the home, belonging to the family”) (compare English home, Lithuanian káimas (“village, countryside”), Sanskrit क्षेम (kṣéma, “basis, foundation”)).
cu (feminine singular cu, plural cu, equative cued, comparative cuach, superlative cuaf)
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