piu
- (international standards)ISO 639-3language code forPintupi-Luritja.
Unclear. CompareFrenchpivot.
piu m (pluralpius)
- tenon,peg,pivot
- (colloquial)penis
Onomatopoeic.
piu m (pluralpius)
- chirp,peep
piu
- water
- Johannes Chrysostomus Mitterrutzner,Die Dinka-Sprache in Central-Africa. Kurze Grammatik, Text und Wörterbuch (1866)
- Arturo Nebel,Dinka grammar (Rek-Malual dialect) with texts and vocabulary (1948)
- Archibald Norman Tucker,Dinka Orthography (1978)
- Roger Blench (2005),Dinka-English Dictionary[2], page144
Compare withTahitianpiu andTuamotuanpiu[1][2](Thisetymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at theEtymology scriptorium.)
piu (passivepiua)
- tocast, tothrow, tofling (of rope, line etc)
- toswing (of a cord)
- towave, tosway
- towield, tobrandish (of a weapon)
- ^Tregear, Edward (1891),Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary[1], Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, page342
- ^Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “piu.2”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, inOceanic Linguistics, volume50, number 2, pages551-559
- Williams, Herbert William (1917), “piu”, inA Dictionary of the Maori Language, page331
- “piu” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011,→ISBN.
Onomatopoeic.
piu
- chirp(sound made by young chicken)
piu (pluralpïu)
- water
- Dinka-English Dictionary[3],2005
- IPA(key): /ˈpju/[ˈpju]
- Rhymes:-u
- Syllabification:piu
piu
- pew(Onomatopoeia for gunfire)
