plu

Clipping of paraplu.

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plu m (plural plu's, diminutive pluutje n)

1. (colloquial) umbrella, brolly

From Latin plūs. Doublet of pli and plus.

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• IPA^(key): [plu]
• Hyphenation: plu

plu

1. further, longer, more

• IPA^(key): /ply/

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plu (feminine plue, masculine plural plus, feminine plural plues)

1. past participle of pleuvoir

plu (feminine plue, masculine plural plus, feminine plural plues)

1. past participle of plaire

Borrowing from French plus and Italian più. Compare Esperanto pli and false friend Esperanto plu.

• IPA^(key): /plu/

plu

1. (of comparison) more, further

   Antonym: min

   Lu plu multe ocias kam laboras. ― He is more often idle than working.

   • 2014, Brian E. Drake, Sencesa bruiso, page 36:

     Mielo kaptas plu multa mushi kam vinagro.

     Honey catches more flies than vinegar.

• plue (“moreover, besides”)
• plu-

comparative degree of truep. From Latin plūs.

plu

1. more

• l miec "(the) most"

From French plus or Latin plus.

plu

1. more

• pluf

From Middle Welsh pluf, from Proto-Brythonic *plʉβ̃, a borrowing from Latin plūma (“feather”). Cognate with Cornish pluv, Breton pluñv.

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /plɨː/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /pliː/
• Rhymes: -ɨː

plu f (collective, singulative pluen or plufen)

1. feathers
3. (fishing) flies

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “plu”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies