juu

Variant of joo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈjuː/, [ˈjuː]
• Rhymes: -uː
• Syllabification^(key): juu

juu (colloquial)

1. yeah, yes

• (echo response)
• kyllä
• (colloquial) joo

• “juu”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

• uju

juu

1. hello, hi

• Cabeceras Aid Project, Diccionario Bilingüe Iquito – Castellano

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒuː/

Derived from English due.

juu

1. due; owing or owed
   • 2019, “Recognize Patois As An Official Language; Says UWI”, in JamaicanInsider.com‎:

     Juu tu ou Jamiekan a di wan langwij we bring evri Jamiekan tugeda;

     Due to how Jamaican is the language that brings all Jamaicans together;

Derived from English dew.

juu (plural juu dem, quantified juu)

1. dew, drizzle
   • 2021, “Wa Wi Kyan Lorn Fram Di Sitn Dem We Wi Si Iina Di Sang We Jeuova Did Tel Muoziz Fi Rait?”, in JW.org‎:

     Di sitn dem we wi a tiich piipl komiin laik juu pan graas.

     The things we teach people are like [as numerous as] dew drops on the grass.

• juu at majstro.com

juu

1. Alternative form of Jew

From Proto-Bantu *ìgʊ̀dʊ̀.

• Audio (Kenya)

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juu

1. up, above (away from earth's centre)
2. (by extension) about

• chini

juu (n class, no plural)

1. top, upper part

• juu ya (“concerning, regarding”)

-a juu (invariable)

1. high

• IPA^(key): [hʷuː]

juu

1. hair (of the head)

• ju'jö

• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “hu:”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “hū”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021