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huntu

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Finnish

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Etymology

Unknown, but cognate with Ingrian huntu and Kukkuzi huntu.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈhuntu/, [ˈhun̪t̪u]
  • Rhymes: -untu
  • Syllabification(key): hun‧tu
  • Hyphenation(key): hun‧tu

Noun

huntu

  1. veil (article of clothing)
  2. (botany) calyptra, veil, root cap
  3. (cooking) glaze (coating applied to food, usually meat, e.g. ham)
  4. (astronomy) coma
    Synonym: koma

Declension

More information nominative, genitive ...
More information first-person singular possessor, singular ...

Derived terms

Further reading

Anagrams

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Hausa

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /hún.túː/
    • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA(key): [hʊ́n.túː]

Adjective

huntū (feminine huntuwā, plural huntā̀yē)

  1. naked, at least partly unclothed

Noun

huntū m (feminine huntuwā, plural huntā̀yē, possessed form huntun)

  1. naked person
  2. destitute person

Ingrian

Etymology

Related to Finnish huntu.

In the sense of the headwear, a semantic loan from Finnish huntu.

Pronunciation

Noun

huntu

  1. synonym of kapalo (swaddling clothes)
  2. a headwear worn by ägrämöin women

Declension

More information Declension of (type 4/koivu, nt-nn gradation), singular ...

Derived terms

References

  • Volmari Porkka (1885), Ueber den Ingrischen Dialekt mit Berücksichtigung der übrigen finnisch-ingermanländischen Dialekte (in Ingrian), page 6
  • Ruben E. Nirvi (1971), Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 74
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Old Javanese

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *quntu (tusks of a boar), compare Mansaka onto.

Noun

huntu

  1. tooth

Alternative forms

Derived terms

  • mahuntu

Descendants

  • > Javanese: ꦲꦸꦤ꧀ꦠꦸ (untu) (inherited)

Further reading

  • "huntu" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Portuguese junto and Spanish junto and Kabuverdianu djuntu.

Adverb

huntu

  1. together, jointly

Sundanese

More information Sundanese register set, lemes ...

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *quntu (tusks of a boar).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /hunˈtu/
  • Hyphenation: hun‧tu

Noun

huntu (Sundanese script ᮠᮥᮔ᮪ᮒᮥ)

  1. tooth

Derived terms

  • huntu gelap
  • huntu gégép
  • huntu kala
  • ngahuntu

Further reading

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