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U ս Appendix:Variations of "u" Neapolitan Alternative forms nap lu, nap u apostrophe-free orthography Etymology From nap nap-old lu, ultimately from nap la illum. Pronunciation nap /u/ Article nap article m en the Pronoun nap pronoun m him (accusative) Coordinate terms Old Tupi Etymology tpw ingest :inh tup-gua-pro:*ʔu<id:eat> ++ Pronunciation tpw /ʔu/ tpw u 1 Verb vt 1 to ingest to take a substance into the body tpw karu<t:to eat><pos:intransitive> 1 I aputu'uma t'a'u. I shall eat his brains. 66 References + 491 1 Paraguayan Guarani Etymology gug tup-gua-pro *ʔu. Pronunciation gug /ʔu/ gug u 1 Verb gug verb active transitive irregular eat, drink Conjugation 'u Derived terms gug y'u drink water References + 112 2 gug Food and drink Tarantino Article roa-tar article u m-s plural le the Welsh Etymology cy eu their. Pronunciation cy /i̯/ cy 'i Usage notes Despite being written as u, the vowel here is /i̯/ in north Wales, making it homophonous with singular cy 'i in all varieties of the spoken language. Determiner cy determiner possessive determiners their used after vowels cy Ymwelon ni â’u hwyres nhw’n yr ysbyty. We visited their granddaughter in hospital. Pronoun cy pronoun personal pronouns them used after vowels as the direct object of a verbal noun or verb cy Cyhuddodd fi o’u dwyn ac yna’u gwerthu. He/She accused me of stealing them and then selling them. cy Fe’u ceir yma o bryd i'w gilydd. They are found (lit. "One finds them") here occasionally. Usage notes In formal Welsh, the contraction cy 'u is a valid form of cy eu found after mostly functional vowel-final words. In colloquial Welsh, cy eu is often contracted to cy 'u after almost any vowel-final word. Pronomial cy 'u (and cy eu) can occur before any verbal noun. Before a verb, pronomial cy 'u is found only in formal language after certain vowel-final preverbal particles, such as cy fe, cy a and cy y. After certain certain vowel-final preverbal particles, such as cy ni, cy na, cy oni and cy pe, cy -s is used instead. After the preposition cy i to, the contraction changes to cy i’w. Further reading