# iu
## Translingual
### Symbol

iu
* (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Inuktitut.

## Äiwoo
### Pronoun

iu
* I

### References

* Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007) “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, number 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.

## Aromanian
### Etymology

Probably from Latin ubi. Compare the obsolete Romanian iuo. Compare also Megleno-Romanian iunde, Romanian unde.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Adverb

iu
* where
    D-iu esht?Where are you from?

#### Related terms

* iutsido / iutsãdo
* iuva

## Bislama
### Pronoun

iu
* Alternative form of yu

## Esperanto
### Etymology

From i- (indeterminate correlative prefix) +‎ -u (correlative suffix of individuals).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈiu]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -iu
* Hyphenation: i‧u

### Determiner

iu (accusative singular iun, plural iuj, accusative plural iujn)
* some
* a : when necessary to express indefiniteness
** 1995, Peter J. Benson, Comprehensive English-Esperanto Dictionary, Esperanto League for North America, page 17:
    Tio ne estas mia libro, sed ĝi estas iu libro.That is not my book, but it is a book.
** 1995, Peter J. Benson, Comprehensive English-Esperanto Dictionary, Esperanto League for North America, page 17:
    kvazaŭ iu saĝa Salomonolike a wise Solomon

#### Derived terms

* iu ajn (“any”)

### Pronoun

iu (plural iuj, accusative singular iun, accusative plural iujn)
* someone, somebody
** 1973 December 29, J. C. Kilburn, “Esperantistoj! (personal advertisement)”, in Gay Community News, volume 1, number 28, page 10:Iu, kiu dezirus korespondi kun eksterlandaj gesamseksemuloj, bonvole skribu al […](please add an English translation of this quotation)

#### Derived terms

* iu ajn (“anyone, anybody”)
* iutage (“one day, someday”)

### See also
## Gothic
### Romanization

iu
* Romanization of 𐌹𐌿

## Japanese
### Romanization

iu
* Rōmaji transcription of いう

## Leti
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qihu, Proto-Austronesian *qiSu.

### Noun

iu
* shark

## Manx
### Etymology

From Old Irish ibid, from Proto-Celtic *ɸibeti, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₃-.

### Verb

iu (verbal noun iu, present participle giu, past participle iuit)
* to drink

#### Derived terms

* iuder (“drinker”)
* iuoil (“drinkable, potable”, adj)

## Marshallese
### Pronunciation

* (phonetic) IPA: [i̯u]
* (phonemic) IPA: /jiw/
* Bender phonemes: {yiw}

### Noun

iu
* coconut

#### Related terms

* ni (coconut tree)

### References

* Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

## Old English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈi.uː/

### Adverb

iū
* Alternative form of ġeō

## Old High German
### Pronoun

iu
* dative plural of ir

## Old Saxon
### Alternative forms

* eu, iuu, giu

### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *iwwiz, from Proto-Germanic *iwwiz, a variant of *izwiz, whence also Old English ēow, Old High German iu.

### Pronoun

iu
* accusative/dative of gi

#### Descendants

* Middle Low German: jû, jûw
** Low German: ju, jug, jo, jau, u, ugg

## Pijin
### Alternative forms

* yu

### Etymology

From English you.

### Pronoun

iu
* you (second person singular pronoun)

#### See also
## Sicilian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈiu/

### Pronoun

iu
* Alternative form of eu (“I”)

## Tok Pisin
### Pronoun

iu
* Alternative form of yu

## Vietnamese
### Pronunciation

* (Hà Nội) IPA: [ʔiw˧˧]
* (Huế) IPA: [ʔiw˧˧]
* (Saigon) IPA: [ʔiw˧˧]

### Verb

iu
* (dialectal) Eye dialect spelling of yêu, representing Southern Vietnam Vietnamese.