# gu
## Translingual
### Symbol

gu
* (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Gujarati.

## English
### Noun

gu (plural gus)
* Alternative spelling of gue (“Shetland fiddle”)
* Alternative form of gu. (“gules”)

### See also

* gu zheng (etymologically unrelated)

### Anagrams

* UG, Ug, ug

## Ambulas
### Noun

gu
* water

### References

* Patricia R. Wilson, Ambulas Grammar (1980)

## Anguthimri
### Noun

gu
* (Mpakwithi) knee

### References

* Terry Crowley, The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 186

## Basque
### Etymology

From Proto-Basque *gu.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* IPA: /ɡu/ [ɡu]
* Rhymes: -u
* Hyphenation: gu

### Pronoun

gu
* First-person plural personal pronoun; we

#### Derived terms

* geu (“we ourselves”)
* guganatu (“to bring closer to us”)
* guhaur
* gure aita (“Lord's Prayer”)
* gureganatu (“to bring closer to us”)
* guretu

### Further reading

* “gu”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
* “gu”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

## Central Mazahua
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡʷ/

### Letter

gu (upper case Gu)
* A letter of the Mazahua alphabet.

#### See also

* (Latin-script letters) A a, Ⱥ ⱥ, A̱ a̱, B b, C c, Cꞌ cꞌ, Cj cj, Cu cu, Cꞌu cꞌu, Cju cju, Ch ch, Chꞌ chꞌ, Chj chj, D d, Dy dy, E e, Ɇ ɇ, E̱ e̱, G g, Gu gu, Hu hu, ꞌHu ꞌhu, I i, I̱ i̱, J j, Jꞌ jꞌ, Jm jm, Jn jn, Jñ jñ, Ju ju, Jy jy, L l, M m, Mꞌ mꞌ, N n, Nꞌ nꞌ, Ñ ñ, Ñꞌ ñꞌ, O o, Ø ø, O̱ o̱, P p, Pj pj, R r, S s, T t, Tꞌ tꞌ, Tj tj, Ts ts, Tsꞌ tsꞌ, Tsj tsj, U u, Ꞹ ꞹ, U̱ u̱, X x, Z z, Zh zh, ꞌ

## Dena'ina
### Adverb

gu
* here

### Determiner

gu
* this

## East Central German
### Adverb

gu
* (Erzgebirgisch) yes

### Further reading

* 1882 Christian Friedrich Röder, Unera Hamet https://digital.slub-dresden.de/werkansicht/dlf/101145/296

## Iatmul
### Noun

gu
* water
* any liquid

#### Derived terms

* nyigi gu (“beer”, literally “bitter water”)

### References

* Gerd Jendraschek, in Future Times, Future Tenses, edited by Philippe De Brabanter, Mikhail Kissine, Saghie Sharifzadeh

## Isthmus Zapotec
### Noun

gu
* sweet potato

## Japanese
### Romanization

gu
* The hiragana syllable ぐ (gu) or the katakana syllable グ (gu) in Hepburn romanization.

## Manambu
### Noun

gu
* water or any other liquid (beer, wine, petrol)

### References

* Alexandra Aikhenvald, The Manambu Language of East Sepik, Papua New Guinea (2010, →ISBN

## Mandarin
### Romanization

gu
* Nonstandard spelling of gū.
* Nonstandard spelling of gú.
* Nonstandard spelling of gǔ.
* Nonstandard spelling of gù.

#### Usage notes

* Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

## Middle English
### Pronoun

gu
* Alternative form of yow

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Noun

gu
* (dialectal, Trøndelag dialect, Eastern Norway) alternative form of gud (“god”)
** 1800, H.Barlien, Trondhiems Budstik:De føst Bue: Du ska int ha naakaan framund gu istan for mægThe first commandment: you shall not have any foreign god instead of me

### See also

* Gu

## Scottish Gaelic
### Etymology

From Middle Irish go, from Old Irish co. Cognates include Irish go and Manx dy.

### Pronunciation

Particle:
* IPA: /ɡ̊ə/
Preposition:
* IPA: /ɡ̊ɔ/
* (Wester Ross) IPA: /ɣɔ/, /ɡ̊ɔ/

### Particle

gu
* Makes an adverb when placed in front of an adjective
    Tha mi gu math.I am (doing) well.

#### Usage notes

* Before vowels the form gu h- is used.

### Preposition

gu (+ dative, no mutation, before the definite article chun, combined with the singular definite article gun)
* till, until
    Fanaidh mi gu ochd uairean.I’ll wait until eight o’clock.
* to
    Chuir mi litir gu mo phàrantan.I sent a letter to my parents.

#### Usage notes

* Before the definite article takes the form chun and is followed by the genitive instead of the dative.
    Is toil leis a bhith a' dol gu partaidhean.He likes going to parties.
    A bheil thu tighinn chun a' phartaidh?Are you coming to the party?

#### Alternative forms

* gus

#### Derived terms

* gu bhith
* gu dearbh
* gu leòr
* gu leth

### Conjunction

gu
* that; used with the dependent form of a verb to introduce a subordinate clause.
    Tha mi a’ smaoineachadh gu bheil clann aca.I think that they have children.

#### Usage notes

* If the clause is negated, gu is replaced with nach.

### References

* ↑ Oftedal, M. (1956) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. III: The Gaelic of Leurbost, Isle of Lewis, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
* ↑ John MacPherson (1945) The Gaelic dialect of North Uist (Thesis)‎, Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh
* ↑ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1937) The dialect of Barra in the Outer Hebrides, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
* ↑ Oftedal, M. (1956) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. III: The Gaelic of Leurbost, Isle of Lewis, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
* ↑ John MacPherson (1945) The Gaelic dialect of North Uist (Thesis)‎, Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh
* ↑ Mac Gill-Fhinnein, Gordon (1966) Gàidhlig Uidhist a Deas, Dublin: Institiúid Ard-Léinn Bhaile Átha Cliath
* ↑ Roy Wentworth (2003) Gaelic Words and Phrases From Wester Ross / Faclan is Abairtean à Ros an Iar, Inverness: CLÀR, →ISBN

## Sumerian
### Romanization

gu
* Romanization of 𒄖 (gu)

## Vietnamese
### Etymology

From French goût.

### Pronunciation

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

### Noun

gu
* (colloquial) taste (implicit set of preferences), especially esthetic taste
    gu thẩm mĩesthetic taste

#### Derived terms

* hợp gu

## Welsh
### Pronunciation

* (North Wales) IPA: /ɡɨː/
* (South Wales) IPA: /ɡiː/
* Homophone: gi (South Wales only)

### Adjective

gu
* Soft mutation of cu.

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

## Wutunhua
### Etymology

Likely from Mandarin 其 (qí).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ku]

### Determiner

gu
* that
    Synonyms: gu-gu, gu-ge
    Coordinate term: je (“this”)
    ngu gu xawa wan-di-yek.I am working on that task.(Quoted in Sandman, p. 76)

### Pronoun

gu
* third-person pronoun; he, him, she, her, it
* that
    Synonym: gu-ge

#### See also
### References

* Erika Sandman (2016) A Grammar of Wutun‎, University of Helsinki (PhD), →ISBN

## Zou
### Etymology

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *ruʔ, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *rus. Cognates include Mizo ruh and Burmese ရိုး (rui:).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡu˧˩/

### Noun

gù
* bone

### References

* Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University