"-tsu" meaning in All languages combined

See -tsu on Wiktionary

Suffix [Basque]

Head templates: {{head|eu|suffix}} -tsu
  1. Used to create adjectives from nouns. Tags: morpheme

Suffix [Finnish]

Forms: -tsy [front-vowel]
Etymology: As with many slang suffixes, there are probably multiple origins. The main origin is probably -tsa + -u, but another origin may be -su added to stems ending in t. Etymology templates: {{suffix|fi|-tsa|-u|id1=slang}} -tsa + -u Head templates: {{fi-affix-linguistic-notation|{{{stem}}}}} {{{stem}}}, {{fi-affix-linguistic-notation|{{{stem2}}}}} {{{stem2}}}, {{fi-affix-linguistic-notation|tsy}} tsU, {{head|fi|suffixes|front vowel harmony variant|-tsy||-{{{stem}}}-||-{{{stem2}}}-||-{{{stem}}}-||-{{{stem2}}}-|linguistic notation|-tsU||{{{comp}}}||{{{sup}}}|cat2=|f2nolink=1|f3nolink=1|f4nolink=1|f5nolink=1|f6nolink=1|f7nolink=1|f8nolink=1|head=}} -tsu (front vowel harmony variant -tsy, linguistic notation -tsU), {{fi-suffix|noun|var=tsy}} -tsu (front vowel harmony variant -tsy, linguistic notation -tsU)
  1. (slang) Slang suffix, generally for nouns (with clipping). Tags: morpheme, slang
    Sense id: en--tsu-fi-suffix-ck3zaM5v Categories (other): Finnish terms suffixed with -u Disambiguation of Finnish terms suffixed with -u: 45 55
  2. (no longer productive) Found in some surnames. Tags: idiomatic, morpheme
    Sense id: en--tsu-fi-suffix-J97a7-im Categories (other): Finnish entries with incorrect language header, Finnish terms suffixed with -u, Pages using catfix, Pages with 4 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Finnish entries with incorrect language header: 26 74 Disambiguation of Finnish terms suffixed with -u: 45 55 Disambiguation of Pages using catfix: 24 76 Disambiguation of Pages with 4 entries: 25 75 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 23 77

Romanization [Japanese]

Head templates: {{head|ja|romanization|head=|sc=Latn}} -tsu
  1. Rōmaji transcription of つ Tags: Rōmaji, alt-of, romanization Alternative form of: つ

Noun [Lower Tanana]

IPA: /tsʰu/ Forms: betsu [possessed-form, third-person]
Etymology: From Proto-Athabaskan *-čuˑ. Compare Ahtna -tsucde. Etymology templates: {{inh|taa|ath-pro|*-čuˑ}} Proto-Athabaskan *-čuˑ, {{cog|aht|-tsucde}} Ahtna -tsucde Head templates: {{head|taa|noun|third person possessed form|betsu}} -tsu (third person possessed form betsu)
  1. grandmother Derived forms: ntsu luk'a (english: bullhead), netsu tanilot (english: water ouzel), netsutthi' (english: slimy sculpin), setsu tabila' (english: spiderweb), -tsu gwya (english: great-grandmother), xutsu (english: old woman)

Inflected forms

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  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "eu",
        "2": "suffix"
      },
      "expansion": "-tsu",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Basque",
  "lang_code": "eu",
  "pos": "suffix",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Basque entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages using catfix",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 4 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "eguzki (“sun”) + -tsu → eguzkitsu (“sunny”)",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "euri (“rain”) + -tsu → euritsu (“rainy”)",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Used to create adjectives from nouns."
      ],
      "id": "en--tsu-eu-suffix-NS~7hXKV",
      "tags": [
        "morpheme"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "-tsu"
}

{
  "etymology_links": [
    [
      "-tsa",
      "-tsa#Finnish:_slang"
    ],
    [
      "-u",
      "-u#Finnish"
    ],
    [
      "-su",
      "-su#Finnish"
    ]
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fi",
        "2": "-tsa",
        "3": "-u",
        "id1": "slang"
      },
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      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "As with many slang suffixes, there are probably multiple origins. The main origin is probably -tsa + -u, but another origin may be -su added to stems ending in t.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "-tsy",
      "tags": [
        "front-vowel"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "{{{stem}}}"
      },
      "expansion": "{{{stem}}}",
      "name": "fi-affix-linguistic-notation"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "{{{stem2}}}"
      },
      "expansion": "{{{stem2}}}",
      "name": "fi-affix-linguistic-notation"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "tsy"
      },
      "expansion": "tsU",
      "name": "fi-affix-linguistic-notation"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fi",
        "10": "-{{{stem}}}-",
        "11": "",
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        "13": "linguistic notation",
        "14": "-tsU",
        "15": "",
        "16": "{{{comp}}}",
        "17": "",
        "18": "{{{sup}}}",
        "2": "suffixes",
        "3": "front vowel harmony variant",
        "4": "-tsy",
        "5": "",
        "6": "-{{{stem}}}-",
        "7": "",
        "8": "-{{{stem2}}}-",
        "9": "",
        "cat2": "",
        "f2nolink": "1",
        "f3nolink": "1",
        "f4nolink": "1",
        "f5nolink": "1",
        "f6nolink": "1",
        "f7nolink": "1",
        "f8nolink": "1",
        "head": ""
      },
      "expansion": "-tsu (front vowel harmony variant -tsy, linguistic notation -tsU)",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "noun",
        "var": "tsy"
      },
      "expansion": "-tsu (front vowel harmony variant -tsy, linguistic notation -tsU)",
      "name": "fi-suffix"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Finnish",
  "lang_code": "fi",
  "pos": "suffix",
  "senses": [
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      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "45 55",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Finnish terms suffixed with -u",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Slang suffix, generally for nouns (with clipping)."
      ],
      "id": "en--tsu-fi-suffix-ck3zaM5v",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang) Slang suffix, generally for nouns (with clipping)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "morpheme",
        "slang"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "26 74",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Finnish entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "45 55",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Finnish terms suffixed with -u",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "24 76",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages using catfix",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "25 75",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 4 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "23 77",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Found in some surnames."
      ],
      "id": "en--tsu-fi-suffix-J97a7-im",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(no longer productive) Found in some surnames."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "morpheme"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "-tsu"
}

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ja",
        "2": "romanization",
        "head": "",
        "sc": "Latn"
      },
      "expansion": "-tsu",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "romanization",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "つ"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese romanizations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese terms with non-redundant manual script codes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 4 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
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        "Rōmaji transcription of つ"
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "Rōmaji",
          "romaji"
        ],
        [
          "つ",
          "つ#Japanese"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Rōmaji",
        "alt-of",
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "-tsu"
}

{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "english": "grandfather",
      "translation": "grandfather",
      "word": "-tseya"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_links": [
    [
      "*-čuˑ",
      "Reconstruction:Proto-Athabaskan/-čuˑ"
    ],
    [
      "-tsucde",
      "-tsucde#Ahtna"
    ]
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "taa",
        "2": "ath-pro",
        "3": "*-čuˑ"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Athabaskan *-čuˑ",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "aht",
        "2": "-tsucde"
      },
      "expansion": "Ahtna -tsucde",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Athabaskan *-čuˑ. Compare Ahtna -tsucde.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "betsu",
      "tags": [
        "possessed-form",
        "third-person"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "taa",
        "2": "noun",
        "3": "third person possessed form",
        "4": "betsu"
      },
      "expansion": "-tsu (third person possessed form betsu)",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Lower Tanana",
  "lang_code": "taa",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Lower Tanana entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 4 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "taa",
          "name": "Female family members",
          "orig": "taa:Female family members",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "english": "bullhead",
          "translation": "bullhead",
          "word": "ntsu luk'a"
        },
        {
          "english": "water ouzel",
          "translation": "water ouzel",
          "word": "netsu tanilot"
        },
        {
          "english": "slimy sculpin",
          "translation": "slimy sculpin",
          "word": "netsutthi'"
        },
        {
          "english": "spiderweb",
          "translation": "spiderweb",
          "word": "setsu tabila'"
        },
        {
          "english": "great-grandmother",
          "translation": "great-grandmother",
          "word": "-tsu gwya"
        },
        {
          "english": "old woman",
          "translation": "old woman",
          "word": "xutsu"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "my grandmother",
          "text": "setsu",
          "translation": "my grandmother",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "grandmother"
      ],
      "id": "en--tsu-taa-noun-wE2HqnCn",
      "links": [
        [
          "grandmother",
          "grandmother"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/tsʰu/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "-tsu"
}
{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "eu",
        "2": "suffix"
      },
      "expansion": "-tsu",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Basque",
  "lang_code": "eu",
  "pos": "suffix",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Basque entries with incorrect language header",
        "Basque lemmas",
        "Basque suffixes",
        "Pages using catfix",
        "Pages with 4 entries",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "eguzki (“sun”) + -tsu → eguzkitsu (“sunny”)",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "euri (“rain”) + -tsu → euritsu (“rainy”)",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Used to create adjectives from nouns."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "morpheme"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "-tsu"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Finnish entries with incorrect language header",
    "Finnish lemmas",
    "Finnish noun-forming suffixes",
    "Finnish suffixes",
    "Finnish terms suffixed with -u",
    "Pages using catfix",
    "Pages with 4 entries",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_links": [
    [
      "-tsa",
      "-tsa#Finnish:_slang"
    ],
    [
      "-u",
      "-u#Finnish"
    ],
    [
      "-su",
      "-su#Finnish"
    ]
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fi",
        "2": "-tsa",
        "3": "-u",
        "id1": "slang"
      },
      "expansion": "-tsa + -u",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "As with many slang suffixes, there are probably multiple origins. The main origin is probably -tsa + -u, but another origin may be -su added to stems ending in t.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "-tsy",
      "tags": [
        "front-vowel"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "{{{stem}}}"
      },
      "expansion": "{{{stem}}}",
      "name": "fi-affix-linguistic-notation"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "{{{stem2}}}"
      },
      "expansion": "{{{stem2}}}",
      "name": "fi-affix-linguistic-notation"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "tsy"
      },
      "expansion": "tsU",
      "name": "fi-affix-linguistic-notation"
    },
    {
      "args": {
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        "13": "linguistic notation",
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        "16": "{{{comp}}}",
        "17": "",
        "18": "{{{sup}}}",
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        "3": "front vowel harmony variant",
        "4": "-tsy",
        "5": "",
        "6": "-{{{stem}}}-",
        "7": "",
        "8": "-{{{stem2}}}-",
        "9": "",
        "cat2": "",
        "f2nolink": "1",
        "f3nolink": "1",
        "f4nolink": "1",
        "f5nolink": "1",
        "f6nolink": "1",
        "f7nolink": "1",
        "f8nolink": "1",
        "head": ""
      },
      "expansion": "-tsu (front vowel harmony variant -tsy, linguistic notation -tsU)",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "noun",
        "var": "tsy"
      },
      "expansion": "-tsu (front vowel harmony variant -tsy, linguistic notation -tsU)",
      "name": "fi-suffix"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Finnish",
  "lang_code": "fi",
  "pos": "suffix",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Finnish slang"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Slang suffix, generally for nouns (with clipping)."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang) Slang suffix, generally for nouns (with clipping)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "morpheme",
        "slang"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Found in some surnames."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(no longer productive) Found in some surnames."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "morpheme"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "-tsu"
}

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ja",
        "2": "romanization",
        "head": "",
        "sc": "Latn"
      },
      "expansion": "-tsu",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "romanization",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "word": "つ"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
        "Japanese non-lemma forms",
        "Japanese romanizations",
        "Japanese terms with non-redundant manual script codes",
        "Pages with 4 entries",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Rōmaji transcription of つ"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Rōmaji",
          "romaji"
        ],
        [
          "つ",
          "つ#Japanese"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Rōmaji",
        "alt-of",
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
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}

{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "english": "grandfather",
      "translation": "grandfather",
      "word": "-tseya"
    }
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "english": "bullhead",
      "translation": "bullhead",
      "word": "ntsu luk'a"
    },
    {
      "english": "water ouzel",
      "translation": "water ouzel",
      "word": "netsu tanilot"
    },
    {
      "english": "slimy sculpin",
      "translation": "slimy sculpin",
      "word": "netsutthi'"
    },
    {
      "english": "spiderweb",
      "translation": "spiderweb",
      "word": "setsu tabila'"
    },
    {
      "english": "great-grandmother",
      "translation": "great-grandmother",
      "word": "-tsu gwya"
    },
    {
      "english": "old woman",
      "translation": "old woman",
      "word": "xutsu"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_links": [
    [
      "*-čuˑ",
      "Reconstruction:Proto-Athabaskan/-čuˑ"
    ],
    [
      "-tsucde",
      "-tsucde#Ahtna"
    ]
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
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        "2": "ath-pro",
        "3": "*-čuˑ"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Athabaskan *-čuˑ",
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      },
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      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Athabaskan *-čuˑ. Compare Ahtna -tsucde.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "betsu",
      "tags": [
        "possessed-form",
        "third-person"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "taa",
        "2": "noun",
        "3": "third person possessed form",
        "4": "betsu"
      },
      "expansion": "-tsu (third person possessed form betsu)",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Lower Tanana",
  "lang_code": "taa",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Lower Tanana entries with incorrect language header",
        "Lower Tanana lemmas",
        "Lower Tanana nouns",
        "Lower Tanana terms derived from Proto-Athabaskan",
        "Lower Tanana terms inherited from Proto-Athabaskan",
        "Lower Tanana terms with usage examples",
        "Pages with 4 entries",
        "Pages with entries",
        "taa:Female family members"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "my grandmother",
          "text": "setsu",
          "translation": "my grandmother",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "grandmother"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "grandmother",
          "grandmother"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/tsʰu/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "-tsu"
}

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  "msg": "unrecognized head form: linguistic notation -tsU",
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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.