Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An equivalent, compensation, or satisfaction for injuries received; the payment or return which every Maori expected and demanded for any injury or injustice.
- noun Any compensation for services; wages.
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- noun New Zealand
Recompense ,payback ;revenge .
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- noun sun god; counterpart of Akkadian Shamash
Etymologies
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Examples
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In the Etruscan form, I can't help but be idly amused by Uθ- at the beginning which strongly reminds me of Sumerian utu 'sun'.
Archive 2009-11-01 2009
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That is to say, Sumerian Utu-zi 'Life-breath of the sun' would have become a partial calque Ut(a)-napishtim which would be reinterpreted by scribes and priests to mean 'he found (uta-) life-breath (napishtim)' (nb. the replacement of Sum. utu 'sun' with Bab. ūta 'found') and thus back into Sumerian with the reformulated Zi-ud-sura 'Life of long days', now implying a character who has found immortality.
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That is to say, Sumerian Utu-zi 'Life-breath of the sun' would have become a partial calque Ut(a)-napishtim which would be reinterpreted by scribes and priests to mean 'he found (uta-) life-breath (napishtim)' (nb. the replacement of Sum. utu 'sun' with Bab. ūta 'found') and thus back into Sumerian with the reformulated Zi-ud-sura 'Life of long days', now implying a character who has found immortality.
Archive 2009-11-01 2009
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In the Etruscan form, I can't help but be idly amused by Uθ- at the beginning which strongly reminds me of Sumerian utu 'sun'.
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Will we see Raumbo in a t utu? by Margaret Bassett on Sunday, Nov 9, 2008 at 1: 24: 33 PM
Conned Again 2008
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I duz a happpee danz fur utu seeing wen u kumz bak.
ART - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Paleontologists nahatulan Dyurasiko Park upang tumingin napetsahan at utu-uto sa pagkatuklas na Velociraptors ay Feathers .
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But in the sitting room, he could wxinno utu/u witness 5 already see four prizes glittering on top of a piano.
With No One as Witness George, Elizabeth 2005
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Justin sucked in a breath, half expecting the beach to erupt in a welter of Maori natives, their tattooed faces twisted in frenzied cries for utu, their sun-browned hands twined around the deadly hilts of their taiahas.
Once An Angel Medeiros, Teresa, 1962- 1993
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The cause of the quarrel was this: Tiki had had some of his pigs stolen by the natives of Waima, and he was seeking utu by robbing their sweet potato plantations, for which he was shot.
A Narrative of a Nine Months' Residence in New Zealand in 1827 Augustus Earle
oroboros commented on the word utu
According to Chris Cole in Wordplay, the shortest (with two others, uku & ulu) "uncommon word" beginning and ending with letter 'u'.
June 2, 2008