semu

See also: Semu and сему

Esperanto

Verb

semu

  1. imperative of semi

Nheengatu

Alternative forms
  • sému
  • sema (obsolete)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Tupi sem, from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *t͡sẽp, from Proto-Tupian *tẽp.[1][2]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈse.mu/, /ˈsɛ.mu/
  • Rhymes: -emu
  • Hyphenation: se‧mu

Verb

semu

  1. (intransitive) to leave; to exit
  2. (intransitive) to end up (to bring to a conclusion)
  3. (intransitive) to happen; to result
  4. (intransitive) to appear
  5. (intransitive, of a celestial body) to rise
  6. (intransitive, of a plant) to bud; to sprout; to grow
  7. (intransitive, archaic) to be born
    • 1909, Frederico Benício de Sousa Costa, “Elementos necessários para aprender o nheengatu”, in Carta pastoral de D. Frederico Costa, Bispo do Amazonas a seus amados diocesanos (overall work in Portuguese), Ceará: Typ. Minerva, page 172:
      Aé usemu Belém upé […]
      He was born in Bethlehem […]

Derived terms
  • musemu
  • semusawa

References
  1. Andrey Nikulin (2020) Proto-Macro-Jê: um estudo reconstrutivo‎ (in Portuguese), Brasília: UnB, page 568
  2. Marcel Twardowsky Ávila (2021) “semu”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português [Nheengatu–Portuguese dictionary proposal] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, →DOI, page 690

Sicilian

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈsɛ.mu/
  • Hyphenation: sè‧mu

Verb

semu

  1. first-person plural present indicative tense of èssiri; (we) are.
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