# 'u
## Guaraní
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʔu/

### Verb

'u (active, transitive, irregular)
* eat, drink

#### Derived terms

* y'u (“drink water”)

## Neapolitan
### Alternative forms

* lu

### Etymology

From lu, from Latin illum.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /u/

### Pronoun

'u
* him (accusative)

#### Coordinate terms

| Number | Person | Nominative | Accusative | Dative | Reflexive | Possessive | Prepositional |
| singular | first-person | io (i') | me | me | me | mìo, mìa, mieje, meje | me, méne |
| singular | second-person, familiar | tu | te | te | te | tùjo, tòja, tùoje, tòje | te, téne |
| singular | second-person, formal | vuje | ve | ve | ve | vuósto, vósta, vuóste, vóste | vuje |
| singular | third-person, masculine | ìsso | 'o, 'u (lo, lu) | 'i, 'e (li, le) | se | sùjo, sòja, sùoje, sòje | ìsso |
| singular | third-person, feminine | éssa | 'a (la) | 'e (le) | se | sùjo, sòja, sùoje, sòje | éssa |
| plural | first-person | nuje | ce | ce | ce | nuósto, nòsta, nuóste, nòste | nuje |
| plural | second-person, plural | vuje | ve | ve | ve | vuósto, vòsta, vuóste, vòste | vuje |
| plural | third-person, masculine | ìsse | 'i, 'e (li, le) | llòro | se | llòro (invariable) | llòro |
| plural | third-person, feminine | llòro | 'e (le) | llòro | se | llòro (invariable) | llòro |

## Old Tupi
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *ʔu, from Proto-Tupian *kˀu.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʔu/
* Rhymes: -u
* Hyphenation: 'u

### Verb

'u (first-person singular active indicative a'u, first-person singular negative active indicative n'a'uî, noun 'u) (transitive, irregular)
* to ingest (to take a substance into the body)
    Near-synonym: karu (“to eat”, intransitive)
** c. 1583, Joseph of Anchieta, Auto de São Lourenço [Play of Saint Lawrence], Niterói, page 66; republished in Eduardo de Almeida Navarro, transl., compiled by Maria de Lourdes de Paula Martins, Teatro, 2nd edition, São Paulo: Martins Fontes, 2006, →ISBN:(please add the primary text of this quotation)[I aputu'uma t'a'u.]I shall eat his brains.

### References

* Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “'u”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 491, column 1

## Tarantino
### Article

'u m sg (plural le)
* the

## Welsh
### Etymology

Contraction of eu (“their”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /i̯/
* Homophone: 'i

#### Usage notes

* Despite being written as u, the vowel here is /i̯/ in north Wales, making it homophonous with singular 'i in all varieties of the spoken language.

### Determiner

'u
* their (used after vowels)
    Ymwelon ni â’u hwyres nhw’n yr ysbyty.We visited their granddaughter in hospital.

### Pronoun

'u
* them (used after vowels as the direct object of a verbal noun or verb)
    Cyhuddodd fi o’u dwyn ac yna’u gwerthu.He/She accused me of stealing them and then selling them.
    Fe’u ceir yma o bryd i'w gilydd.They are found (lit. "One finds them") here occasionally.

#### Usage notes

* In formal Welsh, the contraction 'u is a valid form of eu found after mostly functional vowel-final words. In colloquial Welsh, eu is often contracted to 'u after almost any vowel-final word.
* Pronomial 'u (and eu) can occur before any verbal noun. Before a verb, pronomial 'u is found only in formal language after certain vowel-final preverbal particles, such as fe, a and y. After certain certain vowel-final preverbal particles, such as ni, na, oni and pe, -s is used instead.
* After the preposition i (“to”), the contraction changes to i’w.

### Further reading

* R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “'u”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies