mutu

mutu

1. nose

• Summer Institute of Linguistics Language Survey of Abu (1975), quoted on transnewguinea.org
• 1998, Otto Ignatius M. S. Nekitel, Voices of Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow: Language, Culture and Identity, →ISBN, page 244:

  [...]demonstrates the range of body parts' terms that Abu' use idiomatically:

  1. baraka 'head'; 2. naif 'eyes'; 3. naleh 'teeth'; 4. mutu 'nose'; 5. ahaka 'tongue/voice'; 6. elhuka 'neck', 7. numunas 'chest', 8. lakuh 'hands', [...]

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀ntʊ̀.

mutu

1. man
2. person

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀tʊ́è.

mutu

1. head

mutu

1. dumb
2. mute

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀tʊ́è (“head”), from Proto-Benue-Congo *-to (“head”), from Proto-Atlantic-Congo *-túi (“head”).

mutu class 3 (plural mitu)

1. head (body part)

• Bible Society of the Republic of Congo, Musamu Wamubwete, 2013 - Yow 19:30, 17:9

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀tʊ́è (“head”), from Proto-Benue-Congo *-to (“head”), from Proto-Atlantic-Congo *-túi (“head”).

mutu

1. head

Borrowed from Latin mūtuus.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈmu.tu]

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mutu (feminine mútua, masculine plural mutus, feminine plural mútues)

1. mutual

   Synonym: mutual

• mútuament

• “mutu”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀tʊ́è.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmu.tú/

mutú class 3 (plural mitú class 4)

1. head
2. chapter (of a book)
3. heading
4. topic under discussion
5. (news) headline

• IPA^(key): /ˈmutu/, [ˈmut̪u]
• Rhymes: -utu
• Syllabification^(key): mu‧tu
• Hyphenation^(key): mu‧tu

Possibly ultimately from Proto-Finnic *mutti- as a back-formation from a form like *mutukas, *mutukka, although neither is attested in Finnish dialects.

mutu

1. Eurasian common minnow (Phoxinus phoxinus)

• “1. mutu”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 1 July 2023

Syllabic abbreviation of musta tuntuu (“I feel, think, suppose, methinks”), or from German Vermutung (“guess”).

mutu (colloquial)

1. poor reasoning or knowledge based on gut feeling or common beliefs as opposed to actual knowledge

• mututuntuma
• näppituntuma

• “2. mutu”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 1 July 2023

• muut

mutu

1. person, human being (man or woman)

This noun is either masculine or feminine according to the definite article, le (“the”, masculine) or to (“the”, feminine).

• wügüri (“man”)
• würi (“woman”)

Possibly from Proto-Chadic *mawut, from Proto-Afroasiatic *mawut- (“to die”). Albeit, compare Gwandara muntu.

Compare also with Bole mot, Gerka mud (“to die”), mwat (“to disappear”), Proto-Central Chadic *mɨts, Proto-Semitic *mawut-, Egyptian mwt, Proto-Berber *ămmət (Central Atlas Tamazight ⵎⵎⵜ (mmt)), Rendille amut, Garre yummuday.

• IPA^(key): /mú.tù/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [mʊ́.tɪ̀]

mutù (grade 3b)

1. to die

• Newman, Paul (2007), “MUT-”, in A Hausa-English Dictionary (Yale Language Series), New Haven; London: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 158.

From Malay mutu, probably Tamil முது (mutu, “vast knowledge”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈmutu/ [ˈmu.t̪u]
• Rhymes: -utu
• Syllabification: mu‧tu

mutu (plural mutu-mutu)

1. quality

Probably from Tamil முத்து (muttu, “pearl, tears”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈmutu/ [ˈmu.t̪u]
• Rhymes: -utu
• Syllabification: mu‧tu

mutu (plural mutu-mutu)

1. pearl

   Synonym: mutiara

• “mutu”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Ultimately from Arabic مَاتَ (māta).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmutu/, [ˈmu.tʊ]

mutu

1. (intransitive) to die
   • (Can we date this quote?), “Halawa”, performed by Dynamq, River Nile Entertainment:

     banaat mutu ashan umon ma ze ita

     Girls die because they’re not like you

   • 2024, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Hal Nas al Mutu bi Ish Tani?:

     Lee anina gi tala ajusiin wa gi mutu?

     Why do we grow old and die?

2. (intransitive) to be dead

• Ian Smith; Morris Timothy Ama (1985), A Dictionary of Juba Arabic & English‎^[3], 1st edition, Juba: The Committee of The Juba Cheshire Home and Centre for Handicapped Children, page 162

mutu f

1. genitive plural of mute

mutu

1. head

Probably from Tamil முது (mutu, “vast knowledge”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmutu/ [ˈmu.t̪u]
• Rhymes: -utu, -u
• Hyphenation: mu‧tu

mutu (Jawi spelling موتو, plural mutu-mutu or mutu²)

1. quality

• kualiti (Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore)
• kualitas (Riau)

• Indonesian: mutu

• "mutu" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017

• IPA^(key): /ˈmuː.tu/
• Rhymes: -uːtu

See the corresponding lemma.

mutu

1. second-person plural imperative of miet

From Italian muto.

mutu (feminine singular muta, plural muti or muta)

1. mute

   Alternative form: kutu

   Synonym: mbikkem

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mutu. Compare Indonesian putus, Fijian mudu.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmutu/ [ˈmʉtʉ]

mutu

1. to cease

• mutunga

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀tʊ́è (“head”), from Proto-Benue-Congo *-to (“head”), from Proto-Atlantic-Congo *-túi (“head”).

mutu class 3 (plural mitu)

1. head (body part)

• Bible Society of Zambia, Chinsenga New Testament, 2015 - Yh 19:30, coku 17:9

• IPA^(key): /ˈmutu/, [ˈmuː.t̪ʊ̠]
• Hyphenation: mù‧tu

From Latin imbūtus. For the lenition, compare also mmunnizza~munnizza.

mutu m (plural muti or muta)

1. alternative form of mmutu (lenited variant)

From Latin mūtus.

• mudu (sonorized)

mutu (feminine singular muta, masculine and feminine plural muti)

1. mute

   Synonym: zittu

   T'hâ stari zittu e mutu!

   Shut up, twice!

From Latin mūtō.

mutu

1. first-person singular present active indicative/subjunctive of mutari (“to change, transform, mutate”)

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀tʊ́è (“head”), from Proto-Benue-Congo *-to (“head”), from Proto-Atlantic-Congo *-túi (“head”).

mutu class 3 (plural mitu)

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• Bible Society of Malawi, Tonga Bible 1986 - Yohane 19:30, Chivumbuzi 17:9
• William Y. Turner (1996), Tumbuka/Tonga-English and English - Tumbuka/Tonga Dictionary‎^[4], Central Africana Limited, page 146

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀tʊ́è (“head”), from Proto-Benue-Congo *-to (“head”), from Proto-Atlantic-Congo *-túi (“head”).

mutu class 3 (plural mitu class 4)

1. head
2. fever (pain in the head)

• kamutu (“head, chapter”)

• William Y. Turner (1996), Tumbuka/Tonga-English and English - Tumbuka/Tonga Dictionary‎^[5], Central Africana Limited, page 146

mutu

1. definite accusative singular of mut