tussu

From Proto-Finnic *tussu, probably sound-symbolic origin.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtusːu/, [ˈt̪us̠ːu]
• Rhymes: -usːu
• Syllabification^(key): tus‧su
• Hyphenation^(key): tus‧su

tussu (vulgar)

1. female genitalia: pussy, cunt

• vittu, pillu

tussu (rare)

1. soft, blunt (like a worn felt tip pen or empty tire)

• “tussu”, 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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈtuːs.suː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈtus.su]

tūssū

1. ablative supine of tundō

tussu

1. alternative form of tissu

• túsu

tú +‎ -su

• IPA^(key): /ˈt̪u.su/

tussu (emphatic)

1. you (singular, informal), thou
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 92^a17

     Bed indbadigthi .i. bed chuintechti .i. cid fáilte ad·cot-sa ⁊ du·ngnéu, is túsu immid·folngi dam, a Dǽ; cid indeb dano ad·cot, is tú, Dǽ, immid·folngi dam.

     To be enriched, i.e. to be sought, i.e. though it is joy that I obtain and make, it is you who effects it for me, O God; so too, though it is wealth that I obtain, it is you, God, who effects it for me.

• tú (non-emphatic)

• Irish: tusa
• Manx: uss
• Scottish Gaelic: thusa

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “tussu”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language