mutu

See also: Mut'u

Abu

Noun

mutu

  1. nose

Further reading
  • Summer Institute of Linguistics Language Survey of Abu (1975), quoted on transnewguinea.org
  • 1998, Otto Ignatius M. S. Nekitel, Voices of Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow: Language, Culture and Identity (→ISBN), page 244:
    [...]demonstrates the range of body parts' terms that Abu' use idiomatically:
    1. baraka 'head'; 2. naif 'eyes'; 3. naleh 'teeth'; 4. mutu 'nose'; 5. ahaka 'tongue/voice'; 6. elhuka 'neck', 7. numunas 'chest', 8. lakuh 'hands', [...]

Basque

Adjective

mutu

  1. dumb
  2. mute

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mūtuus.

Pronunciation

Adjective

mutu (feminine mútua, masculine plural mutus, feminine plural mútues)

  1. mutual

Synonyms

Derived terms
  • mútuament

Further reading

Chichewa

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈmu.tú/

Noun

mutú class 3 (plural mitú class 4)

  1. head
  2. chapter (of a book)
  3. heading
  4. topic under discussion
  5. (news) headline

Finnish

(index mu)

Pronunciation
  • Hyphenation: mu‧tu
  • Rhymes: -utu
  • IPA(key): [ˈmutu]

Etymology 1

Noun

mutu

  1. Eurasian common minnow (Phoxinus phoxinus)
Declension
Inflection of mutu (Kotus type 1/valo, t-d gradation)
nominative mutu mudut
genitive mudun mutujen
partitive mutua mutuja
illative mutuun mutuihin
singular plural
nominative mutu mudut
accusative nom. mutu mudut
gen. mudun
genitive mudun mutujen
partitive mutua mutuja
inessive mudussa muduissa
elative mudusta muduista
illative mutuun mutuihin
adessive mudulla muduilla
ablative mudulta muduilta
allative mudulle muduille
essive mutuna mutuina
translative muduksi muduiksi
instructive — muduin
abessive mudutta muduitta
comitative — mutuineen

Etymology 2

Contraction of musta tuntuu (I feel, think, methinks), or from German Vermutung (“guess”).

Noun

mutu

  1. (colloquial) poor reasoning or knowledge based on common beliefs as opposed to actual knowledge
Synonyms

Anagrams

Garifuna

Noun

mutu

  1. person, human being (man or woman)

Usage notes

This noun is either masculine or feminine according to the definite article, le (“the”, masculine) or to (“the”, feminine).

See also

Latvian

Noun

mutu f

  1. genitive plural form of mute

Maori

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian (compare Indonesian putus, Fijian mudu).

Verb

mutu

  1. to cease

Derived terms
  • mutunga

Novial

Pronoun

mutu

  1. (reciprocal) each other

Sicilian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin mūtus.

Adjective

mutu (feminine singular muta, masculine and plural muti)

  1. mute

Inflection
Masculine Feminine
Singular mutu muta
Plural muti muti
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