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

Borrowed from Latin mūtuus.

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

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

1. mutual

• mutual

• mútuament

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

• 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

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

mutu

1. Eurasian common minnow (Phoxinus phoxinus)

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

mutu

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

• mututuntuma
• näppituntuma

• 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”)

mutu f

1. genitive plural form of mute

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

mutu

1. to cease

• mutunga

mutu

1. (reciprocal) each other

• mudu

From Latin mūtus.

mutu (feminine singular muta, masculine and plural muti)

1. mute