atsu
Ewe
Etymology
From Proto-Gbe *atsú.[1] Cognates include Fon asú, Gun asú, Saxwe Gbe asú and Adja ashú, asú.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /à.t͡sú/
Noun
àtsú (definite singular àtsú lá or àtsúá, plural àtsúwó, definite plural àtsúáwó)
- man, male (as opposed to being a woman)
- Coordinate term: asi
- spouse, (chiefly) husband
- name given to the eldest twin brother, i.e. atsu kple atsuƒoe (“two boys”) or atsu kple tsɛ (“boy and girl”)
- Coordinate terms: atsuƒoe, atsutsɛ, tsɛ
Derived terms
- atsuɖeɖe (“(levirate) marriage”)
- atsuɖeɖekɔɖiɖi (“traditional children's game simulating marriage”)
- atsuƒe (“house owned by husband”)
- Atsuƒoe (“name given to younger twin sister with older brother”)
- atsugbegbe (“divorce”)
- Atsukagbe (“name given to eldest of twin boys”) (dialectal)
- atsunɔviwɔwɔ (“traditional mourning ceremony”)
- atsuɔdzonɔɔdzo (“buffalo, roan antelope”) (colloquial)
- atsusi (“rival, co-wife”)
- atsusikple (“concubine, co-wife”)
- atsusikpɔƒe (“to give a sidelong look”, literally “the co-wife's glance”) (colloquial)
- atsusivi (“nephew”)
- Atsutsɛ (“name given to youngest of twin boys”)
Adjective
àtsú
Derived terms
- atsuatsu (“efficiently”)
Related terms
- ŋutsu
- -tsu
See also
- ame (“man, as opposed to being an animal”)
References
- ^ Capo, Hounkpati B.C. (1991), A Comparative Phonology of Gbe (Publications in African Languages and Linguistics; 14), Berlin/New York; Garome, Benin: Foris Publications & Labo Gbe (Int), pages 217, 219
- Westermann, Dietrich Verfasser (1905), “atsu”, in Wörterbuch der Ewe-Sprache [Dictionary of the Ewe language][1] (in German), Berlin: Dietrich Reimer, section I, pages 511-3
- Westermann, Dietrich Verfasser (1906), “atsu”, in Wörterbuch der Ewe-Sprache [Dictionary of the Ewe language][2] (in German), Berlin: Dietrich Reimer, section II, pages 43, 74, 121
- Jim-Fugar, Dr. M.K.N.; Jim-Fugar, Nicholine (2017), “atsu”, in Nuseline's Ewe-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Togo: Independently published, →ISBN, page 30
Japanese
Romanization
atsu