mutu

mutu

1. nose

• 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', [...]

mutu

1. dumb
2. mute

mutu

1. head

Borrowed from Latin mūtuus.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [ˈmu.tu]

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

1. mutual

   Synonym: mutual

• mútuament

• “mutu” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

From Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀tʊ́è.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmu.tú/

mutú class 3 (plural mitú class 4)

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈmutu/, [ˈmut̪u]
• Rhymes: -utu
• Syllabification^(key): mu‧tu

From Proto-Finnic *mutu (compare Votic mutukõz (“young fish, brit”)).

mutu

1. Eurasian common minnow (Phoxinus phoxinus)

• “1. mutu”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01

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

mutu (colloquial)

1. poor reasoning or knowledge based on gut feeling or common beliefs as opposed to actual knowledge

• mututuntuma
• näppituntuma

• “2. mutu”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01

• muut

mutu

1. person, human being (man or woman)

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

• wügüri (“man”)
• würi (“woman”)

From Proto-Chadic *mawut, from Proto-Afroasiatic *mawVt- (“to die, to kill”). Cognate with Proto-Semitic *mawut-, Egyptian mwt and Central Atlas Tamazight ⵎⵎⵜ (mmt).

• IPA^(key): /mú.tù/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [mʊ́.tɪ̀]

mutù (grade 3b)

1. to die

• Newman, Paul (2007) “MUT-”, in A Hausa-English Dictionary (Yale Language Series), New Haven, London: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 158.

From Malay mutu, probably Tamil முது (mutu, “vast knowledge”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈmut̪u]
• Hyphenation: mu‧tu

mutu (plural mutu-mutu, first-person possessive mutuku, second-person possessive mutumu, third-person possessive mutunya)

1. quality.

Probaly from Tamil முத்து (muttu, “pearl, tears”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈmut̪u]
• Hyphenation: mu‧tu

mutu (plural mutu-mutu, first-person possessive mutuku, second-person possessive mutumu, third-person possessive mutunya)

1. pearl.

   Synonym: mutiara

• “mutu” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

mutu f

1. genitive plural of mute

mutu

1. head

Probably from Tamil முது (mutu, “vast knowledge”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈmutu]
• Hyphenation: mu‧tu

mutu (Jawi spelling موتو, plural mutu-mutu, informal 1st possessive mutuku, 2nd possessive mutumu, 3rd possessive mutunya)

1. quality

• kualiti (Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore)
• kualitas (Riau)

• “mutu” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmuː.tu/
• Rhymes: -uːtu

mutu

1. second-person plural imperative of miet

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mutu. Compare Indonesian putus, Fijian mudu.

mutu

1. to cease

• mutunga

mutu

1. Rōmaji transcription of むとぅ

• IPA^(key): /ˈmutu/, [ˈmuː.t̪ʊ̠]
• Hyphenation: mù‧tu

From Latin mūtus.

• mudu

mutu (feminine singular muta, masculine and feminine plural muti)

1. mute

From Latin mūtō.

mutu

1. first-person singular present active indicative/subjunctive of mutari (“to change, transform, mutate”)

From Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀tʊ́è.

mutu class 3 (plural mitu class 4)

1. head