sinu

sinu

1. (interrogative) who

sinu

1. genitive of sina
2. accusative of sina

From Proto-Oceanic *sinu, cognate with Maori hinu and Hawaiian hinu both meaning "oil, fat, grease".

sinu

1. unscented coconut oil leftover after boiling

sinu

1. a shrub of species Phaleria disperma.

• Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “sinu.1”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online
• Gatty, Ronald (2009) “sinu”, in Fijian-English Dictionary, Suva, Fiji: Ronald Gatty, →ISBN, page 230

IPA^(key): /sinuʔ/

sinu

1. sad

   Sinu iya ― He is sad

sinu

1. to pity; feel sorry for someone

   Aku sinu ke iya laban iya nadai duit.

   I feel sorry for him because he has no money.

sinū

1. ablative singular of sinus

• sinu in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

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sinu

1. accusative/genitive singular of sitnu

• seno, senu, seono, seonu, sionu, synu

Inherited from Proto-West Germanic *sinu, from Proto-Germanic *sinwō, *senawō (“sinew”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsi.nu/

sinu f

1. sinew, nerve, tendon

• Middle English: synwe
  • English: sinew
  • Scots: sinnon, sinnen, sennin, shinnon

sīnu

1. strong masculine/neuter instrumental singular of sīn

sinu (Cyrillic spelling сину)

1. accusative singular of sina

From Portuguese sino (“bell”), from Old Galician-Portuguese sino (“bell”), from Late Latin signum (“bell, ringing of a bell”), from Latin signum (“sign”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”) or *sekʷ- (“to follow”).

sinu

1. bell

Contraction of sí inú (“towards the inside”).

IPA^(key): /sí.nṹ/

sínú

1. into; in

   Bá mi kódọ̀tí sínú apẹ̀rẹ̀. ― Help me pack the rubbish into the bin.

   Ta ló jù ú sínú odò? ― Who threw it into the river?

• used when movement is implied, when no movement is implied nínú is used.