amu

Clipping of English Amuzgo or Spanish amuzgo.

amu

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Guerrero Amuzgo.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Guerrero Amuzgo terms

amu (plural amus)

1. Abbreviation of atomic mass unit.

• AUM, MAU, MUA, Mau, UMA, Uma, aum

• IPA^(key): /ɒˈmúː/

amu

1. nose

amu

1. yesterday

amu

1. I first-person singular pronoun

• Jacques Arends, Pieter Muysken, Norval Smith, editors (1994), Pidgins and Creoles: an introduction (in Annobonese)
• John H. McWhorter (2005), Defining Creole (in Annobonese)

• am

From Latin habeō (“to have, hold”). Compare Daco-Romanian avea, am.

amu (participle avutã)

1. to have
2. (auxiliary, with past participles to form perfect tense) to have ...

• aveari / aveare
• avur

Compare Spanish amo.

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amu m (plural amos)

1. owner, master
2. boss

Borrowed from Spanish hamo.

• IPA^(key): /amu/ [a.mu]

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• Rhymes: -amu, -u
• Hyphenation: a‧mu

amu inan

1. (fishing) hook (for fishing)

• “amu”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
• “amu”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

amù

1. master

amû

1. monkey

amu

1. breast

• Bill Palmer, editor (2018), The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area, Berlin: de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 42

• IPA^(key): /ˈamu/

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• Rhymes: -amu
• Syllabification: a‧mu

amu

1. imperative of ami

Akin to Cebuano amo.

amù

1. monkey

amu

1. Rōmaji transcription of あむ

amu

1. spider

• Chris Rogers, The Use and Development of the Xinkan Languages

From Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *ʀamut, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ʀamut (“fibrous roots”).

amu

1. root

• amo (Western, Southeastern)

From Proto-Nuristani, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *dmáHnaH.

amú f (Western (Ktivi), Northeastern)^[1][2]

1. house
2. room

From Proto-Nuristani, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *HáHtmā (“soul, spirit”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁éh₁tmō.

amú (Western, Northeastern, Southeastern)^[1][3]

1. self

àmù

1. water

• Takács, Gábor (2007), Etymological Dictionary of Egyptian, volume 3, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 201, →ISBN:

  […] we should carefully distinguish the following Ch. roots from AA *m-ˀ "water" [GT]:

  (1) Ch. *h-m "water" [GT]: WCh. *hama [Stl.]: AS *ham (Gmy. *hām) [GT 2004, 153] = *am [Stl. 1977] = *ham [Dlg.] = *ham [Stl. 1987]: […] Krkr. àmù [Schuh], […]

amu

1. first-person singular present indicative of amare

Likely from Proto-Algonquian *a·mo·wa.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /a.mu/, [amu]

amu anim (plural amu'g, obviative amu'l)

1. bee

• “amu”, in Mi'gmaq/Mi'kmaq Online Talking Dictionary‎^[2], 1997–2026

amu

1. mute, dumb

amu

1. mute person
2. lord
3. fertilizer, manure

amu

1. spider

• amutake

• Harrison, Roy; B. de Harrison, Margaret; López Juárez, Francisco; Ordoñes, Cosme (1984), Vocabulario zoque de Rayón (Serie de diccionarios y vocabularios indígenas Mariano Silva y Aceves; 28)‎^[3] (in Spanish), México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 3

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *ad modo (compare Dalmatian jamo (“now”), Aromanian amo, acmo). Informal counterpart to acum.

• IPA^(key): [aˈmu]

amu

1. now

   Synonyms: acu, acum, acuma

• “amu”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026

From Latin hamus. Compare Italian amo.

amu

1. hook (for fishing), fishhook

amu

1. first-person singular present active indicative of amari
2. first-person singular present active subjunctive of amari

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amu class IX (plural amu class X)

1. alternative form of ami

Compare Cebuano mao.

• (Sinūgan Parianun) IPA^(key): /ʔamu/ [ʔɑˈmu]
• Rhymes: -u
• Syllabification: a‧mu

amu (Sulat Sūg spelling اَمُ)

1. right; accurate; true; correct

   Bukun amu in hinang mu.

   You didn't do your work right.

amu (Sulat Sūg spelling اَمُ)

1. the very one, the very thing, the only one (Sometimes seems to mark something seriously referred or referring to something or someone being talked about, equivalent to Cebuano mao ra).

   Amu na siya in bantug mangungubat.

   He is the very one who is the famous healer.

From Proto-Finnic *ammo-, probably from Proto-Uralic *ammi. Cognates include Finnish ammoin.

amu

1. long (a long time ago)