utus

See also: Utus and -utus

Balantak

Noun

utus

  1. sibling (brother, sister)

References

Kapampangan

Etymology

Cognate of Tagalog utos.

Noun

utus

  1. order
  2. precept
  3. decree

Malay

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Malayic *utus, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *utus, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *utus, from (Western) Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *utus₂.[1]

Pronunciation

  • (Johor-Riau) IPA(key): /ˈutos/ [ˈu.t̪os]
    • Rhymes: -utos, -tos, -os
  • (Baku) IPA(key): /ˈutus/ [ˈu.t̪us]
    • Rhymes: -utus, -tus, -us
  • Hyphenation: u‧tus

Verb

utus (Jawi spelling اوتوس)

  1. to delegate (to commit a task to someone)

Derived terms

Affixations
  • berutus / berutus-utusan
  • mengutus
  • pengutusan
  • perutusan
  • utusan

References

  1. ^ Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*utus₂”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

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