ou
See also: Appendix:Variations of "ou"
English
Etymology 1
From Hawaiian ʻōʻū
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈəʊ.uː/
Translations
Further reading
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Pronunciation
- (General South African, UK) IPA(key): /əʊ/
- (US) IPA(key): /oʊ/
Noun
- (South Africa, colloquial) A fellow, guy, bloke. [from 20th c.]
- 1978, André Brink, Rumours of Rain, Vintage 2000, p. 292:
- “They're the same good and solid ous they'd been before. Because they managed not to think.”
- 1978, André Brink, Rumours of Rain, Vintage 2000, p. 292:
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ˈuː/, (unstressed) IPA(key): /u/
Afrikaans
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /œu/
Aneme Wake
Bonggi
References
- Michael Boutin, A role and reference grammar account of Bonggi adversative constructions, A Mosaic of languages and cultures: studies celebrating the career of Karl J. Franklin (2010)
Catalan
French
Etymology
From Old French ou, from Latin aut.[1]
References
- Picoche, Jacqueline; Jean-Claude Rolland (2009), “ou”, in Dictionnaire étymologique du français (in French), Paris: Dictionnaires Le Robert
Further reading
- “ou” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Hawaiian
Usage notes
- Used after negatives, numbers, locative nouns, certain prepositions, and after nouns preceded by an article or a k-determiner.
Italian
Mandarin
Romanization
ou
Usage notes
- English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.
Mauritian Creole
Alternative forms
Middle English
References
- “you, (pron.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 18 May 2018.
Middle French
Preposition
ou
- within
- 15th century, Chronique de Charles VII roi de France par Jean Chartier, Tomé II, edited by Vallet de Viriville. Paris: P. Jannet, 1858, page 18.
- Discord et division ou royaulme de Castile.
- Discord and division within the kingdom of Castile
- Discord et division ou royaulme de Castile.
- 15th century, Chronique de Charles VII roi de France par Jean Chartier, Tomé II, edited by Vallet de Viriville. Paris: P. Jannet, 1858, page 18.
Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Portuguese ou, from Latin aut.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ow/
Audio (file)
Conjunction
ou
Quotations
For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:ou.
Synonyms
- (connects equivalent names): também
Noun
ou m (plural ous)
- (logic) inclusive or (connective which yields true when at least one of the predicates is true)
Quotations
For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:ou.
Romanian
Etymology
From Latin ōvum, from Proto-Italic *ōwom, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm (“egg”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ow]
Declension
Sardinian
Saterland Frisian
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Frisian of, af, from Proto-Germanic *ab (“off, away”). More at off.
Sicilian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɔhu/
- Hyphenation: o‧u
Suena
References
- Transnewguinea.org, citing McElhanon and Voorhoeve (1970), Smallhorn (2011) and Wilson (1969)
Tongan
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Polynesian *au, from Proto-Oceanic *(i-)au, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *(i-)aku, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *(i-)aku, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(i-)aku, from Proto-Austronesian *(i-)aku.
Zia
References
- Transnewguinea.org, citing McElhanon and Voorhoeve (1970), Smallhorn (2011) and Wilson (1969)
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