ũ

See also: Appendix:Variations of "u"
ũ U+0169, ũ
LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH TILDE
Composition:u [U+0075] + ◌̃ [U+0303]
Ũ
[U+0168]
Latin Extended-A Ū
[U+016A]

English

Letter

ũ (lower case, upper case Ũ, plural ũs or ũ's)

  1. (Early Modern, obsolete) The letter u with a tilde, replacing the sequence un or um.
    thũder — thunder
    trũpet — trumpet

Kamkata-viri

Alternative forms

Etymology

Short form of ũċ, from Proto-Nuristani, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *aȷ́ʰám, from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂.[1]

Pronoun

ũ (Northeastern)[2]

  1. I

References

  1. ^ Halfmann, Jakob (2025). The Diversification of Indo-Iranian and the Position of the Nuristani Languages. Wiesbaden: Reichert.
  2. ^ Halfmann, Jakob (2024). A Grammatical Description of the Katë Language (Nuristani) (PhD thesis). Köln: Universität zu Köln.

Kikuyu

Pronunciation

Letter

ũ (lower case, upper case Ũ)

  1. The eighteenth letter of the Kikuyu alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

Middle French

Letter

ũ (lower case, upper case Ũ)

  1. The letter u with a tilde. Used to replace the sequence un or um.
    aulcũ (aulcun) ― any
    tũber (tumber) ― to fall

Mirandese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ũ/ (phoneme)

Letter

ũ (lower case, upper case Ũ)

  1. The letter u with a tilde. Used to indicate nasalisation
    ũaone, a (feminine)
    algũasome

Usage notes

The letter is often written without the tilde due to the fact that it is hard to get the letter digitally. Even though it is accepted to write it without the tilde, it isn't necessarily correct to do so.

Old French

Letter

ũ (lower case, upper case Ũ)

  1. The letter u with a tilde. Used to replace the sequence un or um.
    aucũ (aucun) ― any
    mũd (mund) ― world

Old Galician-Portuguese

Letter

ũ (lower case, upper case Ũ)

  1. The letter u with a tilde. Used to replace the sequence un or um or to indicate the nasalisation of the vowel /u/.
    ũuone, a (masculine)
    ũaone, a (feminine)

Romagnol

Romagnol numbers (edit)
10
 ←  0 1 2  →  10  → 
    Cardinal: un, ũ
    Ordinal: prèm

Pronunciation

Numeral

ũ

  1. one

References

  • Vitali, Daniele; Pioggia, Davide (2016), Dialetti romagnoli [Romagnol dialects] (in Italian), 2 edition, Verucchio: Pazzini Stampatore Editore srl, page 28

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

Letter

ũ (lower case, upper case Ũ)

  1. The letter u with the perispomene.

See also