kupu
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Czech
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]kupu f
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Finnic *kupu. Related to Karelian kupu, Ludian kubu and Veps kubu.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]kupu
- dome (architectural element)
- dome (an object shaped like an upset bowl)
- canopy (parachute cloth)
- crop, craw (pouch-like part of the alimentary tract of some birds and insects)
- stomach, especially a full or round one
- bulb (rounded solid object)
- Synonym of kerä (“head”) (round clump of leaves, like those of cabbage or lettuce)
- (botany) homochlamydeous perianth
- (physics) antinode (of a standing wave)
Declension
[edit]Inflection of kupu (Kotus type 1*E/valo, p-v gradation) | |||
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nominative | kupu | kuvut | |
genitive | kuvun | kupujen | |
partitive | kupua | kupuja | |
illative | kupuun | kupuihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | kupu | kuvut | |
accusative | nom. | kupu | kuvut |
gen. | kuvun | ||
genitive | kuvun | kupujen | |
partitive | kupua | kupuja | |
inessive | kuvussa | kuvuissa | |
elative | kuvusta | kuvuista | |
illative | kupuun | kupuihin | |
adessive | kuvulla | kuvuilla | |
ablative | kuvulta | kuvuilta | |
allative | kuvulle | kuvuille | |
essive | kupuna | kupuina | |
translative | kuvuksi | kuvuiksi | |
abessive | kuvutta | kuvuitta | |
instructive | — | kuvuin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms
[edit]compounds
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “kupu”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja[3] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
Anagrams
[edit]Javanese
[edit]Noun
[edit]kupu
Maori
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Polynesian *kupu (cognates include Hawaiian ʻupu (“thought, recollection”), Tahitian ʻupu (“prayer, invocation”) and Samoan ʻupu),[1] from Proto-Oceanic *puku by metathesis, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bukuh (compare with Malay buku). Sense of "word" comes from metaphorical comparison of segments of written speech with culms of bamboo.[2]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]kupu
- word, vocabulary
- saying, talk
- message, statement
- utterance
- lyric
- (archaic, obsolete) culm (of grass, bamboo)
Verb
[edit]kupu
- (intransitive) to speak
References
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Williams, Herbert William (1917) “kupu”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 183
- “kupu” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.
Tokelauan
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Proto-Polynesian *kupu. Cognates include Hawaiian ʻupu and Samoan 'upu.
Noun
[edit]kupu
Verb
[edit]kupu
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]From Proto-Polynesian *kupu. Cognates include Tongan kupu and Samoan 'upu.
Noun
[edit]kupu
References
[edit]- R. Simona, editor (1986), Tokelau Dictionary[4], Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 169
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- Czech terms with IPA pronunciation
- Czech non-lemma forms
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- Finnish terms inherited from Proto-Finnic
- Finnish terms derived from Proto-Finnic
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/upu
- Rhymes:Finnish/upu/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- fi:Botany
- fi:Physics
- Finnish valo-type nominals
- Javanese lemmas
- Javanese nouns
- jv:Insects
- Maori terms inherited from Proto-Polynesian
- Maori terms derived from Proto-Polynesian
- Maori terms inherited from Proto-Oceanic
- Maori terms derived from Proto-Oceanic
- Maori terms inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian
- Maori terms derived from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian
- Maori terms with IPA pronunciation
- Maori lemmas
- Maori nouns
- Maori verbs
- Maori intransitive verbs
- Tokelauan terms with IPA pronunciation
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