tu
Active verbNdebe script
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Meanings
stick in; plant going to stick sticks along the boundary between us and the Ụmù Agū people
Active verb
Dialect & variants
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Examples
Tụọ osisi a n'ókè ubi anyị taa.
— Stick this stick at the boundary of our farm today.
Ha tụrụ osisi n'ókè ala ha na Ụmù Agū.
— They stuck sticks at the boundary between their land and Ụmù Agū.
Related words
Words built on this one
- (egwù) -tụ
- (mmanya) -tụ
- (olù ụlā) -tụ
- metụ
- sutụ ọnū
- tu afà
- tu ùbu
- tu ùgò
- tu ǹtutu
- tu ụkpò
- tu ụkpụlū
- tudo
- turu(be)
- tù atùtù
- tù ji
- tù mbọ
- tù nkì
- tù àgwà
- tù àkịkà
- tù ùlà
- tù ọnū
- tùbì
- tùcha
- tùchanye
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Same spelling, different tones
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- tùinsert something into covering or mass (e.g. sword passed through belt, feather in hat or hair); down down an elephant if I am given a gun the load which is on the chair; break the surface of a hard object (e.g. break with tips of nails, usually of both hands, small seeds like melon seeds to remove the covering)
- tụattached to a verb to convey a little bit of the verb; a little bit; throw; cast; hurl; fling; throw upon; build