kusu

• gusu

• IPA^(key): /kùꜛsú/

kusu (Kana spelling クス)

1. in order to, to, for
   • 1905, John Bachelor, An Ainu-English-Japanese Dictionary (Including a Grammar of the Ainu Language):

     Nu gusu ku ek, "I have come in order to hear."

2. (with ne) Marks the future tense.

• kusu ne

• IPA^(key): [ˈkusu]

kusu m

1. genitive/dative/locative singular of kus

From German Kusu.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkusu/, [ˈkus̠u]
• Rhymes: -usu
• Hyphenation^(key): ku‧su

kusu

1. brushtail possum (marsupial of the genus Trichosurus)
2. (in the plural) the genus Trichosurus

• kuus, suku

kusu

1. third-person plural past indicative of kjósa

Cognate to Ghotuo kɔ.

kusu

1. to wash

• R. Blench, The Benue-Congo languages

kusu

1. first-person singular past indicative of kust

From Proto-Austronesian *(i-)kaSu.

kusu

1. you (singular)

Cognate with West Makian kusu.

• IPA^(key): /ˈku.su/

kusu

1. alang-alang, kunai grass (Imperata cylindrica)

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Cognate with Ternate kusu.

• IPA^(key): /ˈku.s̪u/

kusu

1. alang-alang, kunai grass (Imperata cylindrica)

Cognate with, if not from, Ternate kuso. Cognate with Sahu 'usoro, Galela kuso.

• IPA^(key): /ˈku.s̪u/

kusu

1. Phalanger orientalis

• James Collins (1982) Further Notes Towards a West Makian Vocabulary‎^[1], Pacific linguistics
• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[2], Pacific linguistics