ús

See also: Appendix:Variations of "us"

Catalan

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₃eyt-der.?

Proto-Italic *oitōr

Latin ūtor

Proto-Indo-European *-tus

Proto-Italic *-tus

Latin -tus

Latin ūsusbor.

Catalan ús

Borrowed from Latin ūsus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central, Valencia, Northwestern) [ˈus]

• Audio (Barcelona):

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• Homophone: us

Noun

ús m (plural usos)

1. use

Related terms

• usar

Further reading

• “ús”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “ús”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “ús” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “ús”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ūsus, compare ūsūra (“interest”) and ūsūria (“usury”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /uːsˠ/

Noun

ús m (genitive singular úis)

1. (commerce) interest

Declension

Declension of ús (first declension, no plural)

bare forms singular nominative ús vocative a úis genitive úis dative ús forms with the definite article singular nominative an t-ús genitive an úis dative leis an ús don ús

Derived terms

• ráta úis (“rate of interest”)
• ús iolraithe (“compound interest”)
• ús simplí (“simple interest”)
• úsach (“usurious”, adjective)

Mutation

Mutated forms of ús

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
ús	n-ús	hús	t-ús

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 ús”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “ús”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla [Irish–English Dictionary], Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959), “ús”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “ús”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2026

Pichinglis

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ús/

Particle

ús

1. which (clitic interrogative particle used to form question words)

Derived terms

• ús-káyn (“which kind of”)
• ús-pɔ́sin (“who”)
• ús-say (“where”)
• ús-stáyl (“how”)
• ús-tín (“what”)
• ús-tɛ́n (“when”)
• ús-áwa (“when”)

References

• Kofi Yakpo (2019), A grammar of Pichi (Studies in Diversity Linguistics; 23)‎^[1], Berlin: Language Science Press, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 577

West Frisian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ys/

Etymology 1

From Old Frisian ūser, ūse.

Determiner

ús

1. our (first-person plural possessive determiner)
2. my (when referring to family members)

Etymology 2

From Old Frisian ūs, from Proto-Germanic *uns.

Pronoun

ús

1. object of wy