# riu
## Aragonese
### Alternative forms

* arriu
* río

### Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin rius, from Latin rīvus (“brook, small stream”)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈrju/
* Rhymes: -u
* Syllabification: riu

### Noun

riu m (plural rius)
* river

### References

* Aragonario

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈriw]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -iw

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Catalan riu, from Vulgar Latin rius (“river”), from Latin rīvus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rih₂wós, from *h₃reyh₂- (“to flow; to move, set in motion”) + *-wós.

#### Noun

riu m (plural rius)
* river

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

riu
* inflection of riure:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### References

* “riu” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Extremaduran
### Etymology

From Vulgar Latin rius (“river”), from Latin rīvus (“brook; small stream”).

### Noun

riu m (plural rius)
* river

## Galician
### Verb

riu
* third-person singular preterite indicative of rir

## Guinea-Bissau Creole
### Etymology

From Portuguese rio.

### Noun

riu
* river

## Japanese
### Romanization

riu
* Rōmaji transcription of りう

## Manx
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /rʲiu/, /rʲuː/

### Pronoun

riu (emphatic riuish)
* second-person form/plural of rish
* with you (formal)
    As ta mee gra riu. And I say unto you.

## Mirandese
### Etymology

From Old Leonese, from Vulgar Latin rius (“river”), from Latin rīvus (“brook; small stream”).

### Noun

riu m (plural rius)
* river

## Occitan
### Etymology

From Old Occitan riu,from Vulgar Latin rius (“river”) or Latin rīvus (“brook; small stream”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈrriw]
* Audio (Languedoc):(file)

### Noun

riu m (plural rius)
* river

## Old Occitan
### Etymology

From Vulgar Latin rius (“river”) or Latin rīvus (“brook; small stream”).

### Noun

riu m (oblique plural rius, nominative singular rius, nominative plural riu)
* river (body of flowing water)

#### Descendants

* Occitan: riu

### References

* Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “rivus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 10: R, page 422

## Papiamentu
### Etymology

From Portuguese rio and Spanish río.

### Noun

riu
* river

## Portuguese
### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese riio, riiu.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈʁiw/ [ˈhiʊ̯]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈʁiw/ [ˈhiʊ̯]
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ˈʁiw/ [ˈχiʊ̯]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈʁiw/
* Rhymes: -iw
* Homophone: rio (Brazil, Central and Southern Portugal)
* Hyphenation: riu

### Verb

riu
* third-person singular preterite indicative of rir

## San Martín Itunyoso Triqui
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Noun

riu
* hummingbird

### References

* Instituto Lingüístico de Verano (1999) El alfabeto del triqui de San Martín, Itunyoso‎ (in Spanish)

## Vietnamese
### Pronunciation

* (Hà Nội) IPA: [ziw˧˧]
* (Huế) IPA: [ʐiw˧˧]
* (Saigon) IPA: [ɹiw˧˧]

### Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

#### Noun

(classifier cái, chiếc) riu
* kind of shrimp trap

#### Verb

riu
* to fish (for shrimps)
    riu tép ― to catch small shrimps

### Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

#### Adverb

riu (diminutive reduplication riu riu)
* (rare or obsolete) little by little