vuo
Appearance
Esperanto
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Polish wu, chosen for being similar to kuo (“Q”).
Coined by Sergio Pokrovskij in Komputika Leksikono in 1995 as a less ambiguous alternative to the more common names duobla vo (which can be taken to mean "vv") and vavo (which can also be used for the Hebrew letter vav or the Arabic letter waw).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]vuo (accusative singular vuon, plural vuoj, accusative plural vuojn)
- (rare) The name of the Latin-script letter W/w.
- 2004 February 13, Roel Haveman, “Re: nomoj de la literoj 'w', hispana 'ñ' kaj portugala 'ç'”, in soc.culture.esperanto[4] (Usenet):
- Lau mi oni kutime diras "kuo" kaj ne "ku". Tial "vuo" estas pli tauga ol "vu", chu ne?
- I believe people usually say "kuo" and not "ku". That's why "vuo" is better than "vu", right?
- 2013, Jorge Camacho, “x, w, y”, in En La Profundo[5], page 117:
- en la sensolva ekvacio de ies vivodaŭro pronomoj (vi, ni, ŝi) kaj verboj (ami, ami?, ami!) estas iksoj, vuoj, ipsilonoj
- in the solutionless equation of someone's lifespan, pronouns (you, we, she) and verbs (to love, to love?, to love!) are exes, double-ues, wyes
Usage notes
[edit]The o is occasionally dropped, usually when spelling out words, e.g. "vu vu vu" for "www", or "vu i ko i" for the English word "wiki".
Synonyms
[edit]- duobla vo
- (rare) ĝermana vo
- vavo
- (rare) vu
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Finnic *voo, from Proto-Uralic *uwa (“current, flow”).[1][2][3]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]vuo
- (literary) stream, river
- Synonym: virta
- (literary) flow, current
- (technical) flow (formalization or abstraction of fluid flow, e.g. in a flowchart or in graph theory)
- (physics) flux (rate of transfer of energy)
Declension
[edit]Inflection of vuo (Kotus type 19/suo, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | vuo | vuot | |
genitive | vuon | voiden voitten | |
partitive | vuota | voita | |
illative | vuohon | voihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | vuo | vuot | |
accusative | nom. | vuo | vuot |
gen. | vuon | ||
genitive | vuon | voiden voitten | |
partitive | vuota | voita | |
inessive | vuossa | voissa | |
elative | vuosta | voista | |
illative | vuohon | voihin | |
adessive | vuolla | voilla | |
ablative | vuolta | voilta | |
allative | vuolle | voille | |
essive | vuona | voina | |
translative | vuoksi | voiksi | |
abessive | vuotta | voitta | |
instructive | — | voin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Sammallahti, Pekka (1988) “Historical Phonology of the Uralic Languages”, in Denis, Sinor, editor, The Uralic Languages: Description, History and Foreign Influences, Leiden: E. J. Brill, →ISBN, page 542: “PFP *uva”
- ^ Ante Aikio (2006) “On Germanic-Saami contacts and Saami prehistory”, in Suomalais-ugrilaisen Seuran Aikakauskirja (Journal de la Société Finno-Ougrienne)[1], volume 91, Suomalais-ugrilainen Seura, →ISSN, pages 9-55
- ^ Junttila, Santeri, Kallio, Petri, Holopainen, Sampsa, Kuokkala, Juha, Pystynen, Juho, editors (2020–), “vuo”, in Suomen vanhimman sanaston etymologinen verkkosanakirja[2] (in Finnish), retrieved 2024-01-01
Further reading
[edit]- “vuo”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][6] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-04
Livvi
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Finnic *voo. Cognates include Finnish vuo.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]vuo (genitive vuon, partitive vuodu)
Declension
[edit]Declension of vuo (Type 15/suu, no gradation) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | vuo | vuot |
genitive | vuon | vuoloin |
partitive | vuodu | vuoloi |
illative | vuoh | vuoloih |
inessive | vuos | vuolois |
elative | vuospäi | vuoloispäi |
allative | vuole | vuoloile |
adessive | vuol | vuoloil |
ablative | vuolpäi | vuoloilpäi |
translative | vuokse | vuoloikse |
essive | vuonnu | vuoloinnu |
abessive | vuottah | vuoloittah |
comitative | vuonke | vuoloinke |
instructive | vuoloiči | |
prolative | vuoči |
References
[edit]- Tatjana Boiko (2019) “vuo”, in Suuri Karjal-Venʹalaine Sanakniigu (livvin murreh) [The Big Karelian-Russian dictionary (Livvi dialect)], 2nd edition, →ISBN
Categories:
- Esperanto terms borrowed from Polish
- Esperanto terms derived from Polish
- Esperanto terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Esperanto/uo
- Esperanto lemmas
- Esperanto nouns
- Esperanto terms with rare senses
- eo:Latin letter names
- Esperanto terms with quotations
- Finnish terms inherited from Proto-Finnic
- Finnish terms derived from Proto-Finnic
- Finnish terms inherited from Proto-Uralic
- Finnish terms derived from Proto-Uralic
- Finnish 1-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/uo
- Rhymes:Finnish/uo/1 syllable
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- Finnish literary terms
- Finnish technical terms
- fi:Physics
- Finnish suo-type nominals
- Livvi terms derived from Proto-Uralic
- Livvi terms inherited from Proto-Uralic
- Livvi terms inherited from Proto-Finnic
- Livvi terms derived from Proto-Finnic
- Livvi terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Livvi/uo̯
- Rhymes:Livvi/uo̯/1 syllable
- Livvi lemmas
- Livvi nouns