emu

See also:Appendix:Variations of "emu"

English

WOTD – 26 January 2019

Etymology 1

An emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae;sense 2)

Probably fromPortugueseema(“(originally) cassowary; giant rhea; (now) ostrich”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation)IPA^(key):/ˈiːmjuː/
• (General American)IPA^(key):/ˈim(j)u/

• Audio(General Australian):

  (file)

• Rhymes:-iːmjuː

Noun

emu(pluralemus)

1. (obsolete)Acassowary(genusCasuarius).[from early 17th c.]
   • 1656,John Tradescant [the elder], “Some Kindes of Birds Their Egges, Beaks, Feathers, Clawes, and Spurres”, inMusæum Tradescantianum:Or, A Collection of Rarities. Preserved at South-Lambeth neer London by John Tradescant,London: Printed by John Grismond, and are to be sold by Nathanael Brooke[…],→OCLC,pages1 and 3:

     [page 1] 1. EGGES. Caſſawary, orEmeu,vide Aldrov:p.542.Harveum, G.A. p.61.[…][page 3] 4. CLAWES.[…]A legge and claw of the Caſſawary orEmeuthat dyed at S.James’s,Weſtminſter.

   • 1752,John Hill,“CASUARIUS.[The Cassowary.]”,inAn History of Animals.[…],London: Printed forThomas Osborne,[…],→OCLC,page482:

     It is a native both of the Eaſt and Weſt Indies; and all the writers on birds have deſscribed it. Aldrovand [Ulisse Aldrovandi] calls itEmeuſiveEme; Boulius,Emeuvulgo Caſoarius; and others, Caſſuarus.

2. A largeflightlessbirdnative toAustralia,Dromaius novaehollandiae.[from 18th c.]
   • 1791,Oliver Goldsmith,An History of the Earth, and Animated Nature.[…],new edition, volume V, London:[…]F[rancis]Wingrave, successor to Mr.[John]Nourse,[…],→OCLC,part I (An History of Birds),pages59 and 60:

     [page 59] TheEmu,though not ſo as large as the oſtrich, is only ſecond to it in magnitude. It is by much the largeſt bird in the New Continent; and is generally found to be ſix feet high, meaſuring from its head to the ground.[…][page 60] [T]heemuruns with ſuch a ſwiftneſs, that the fleeteſt dogs are thrown out in the purſuit.

   • 1829,“The Progress of Zoology”, inT[homas] Crofton Croker,editor,The Christmas Box. An Annual Present to Young Persons,London: John Ebers and Co. 27Old Bond Street;Philadelphia, Pa.: Thomas Wardle,→OCLC,page176:

     From New Holland theemeu,/ With his better moiety, / Has paid a visit to the Zo- / ological Society.

   • 1864June 4, William Bennett, “Acclimation and Breeding of Emeus (Dromius irroratus,Bartlett) in Surrey”, inEdward Newman,editor,The Zoologist: A Popular Miscellany of Natural History,volume XXII, London:John Van Voorst,[…],→OCLC,chapter II:

     I left my youngemeus[…]just parted from their affectionate father, and not yet fully reconciled to beginning the world on their own account.

   • 1873,Anthony Trollope,“Wool”, inAustralia and New Zealand.[...]In Two Volumes,volume II, London:Chapman and Hall,[…],→OCLC,pages219–220:

     A stranger cannot but remark, throughout the pastoral districts of Australia, how seldom he sees sheep as he travels along.[…]It may be that he will also expectemusand kangaroos, and he will generally be disappointed also in regard to them. Kangaroos I certainly have seen in great numbers, though by no means so often as I expected. Anemurunning wild I never did see. Tameemusround the houses in towns are very common, and ofemus’ eggs there is a plethora.

   • 2015,Sankar Chatterjee,“The Avian Revolution Begins”, inThe Rise of Birds: 225 Million Years of Evolution,2nd edition, Baltimore, Md.:Johns Hopkins University Press,→ISBN,page191:

     Both cassowaries andemusare large, flightless, cursorial birds with diminutive wings.[…]Emus,the world's second largest living birds, live in Australia and are the only extant member of the genusDromaius.

Usage notes

A flock of emus is generally called amob.

Alternative forms

• emeu(obsolete)

Hyponyms

• (Dromaius novaehollandiae):Kangaroo Island emu(†Dromaius novaehollandiae baudinianus),King Island emu(†Dromaius novaehollandiae minor),Tasmanian emu(†Dromaius novaehollandiae diemenensis) – extinct subspecies

Derived terms

• dwarf emu(†Dromaius novaehollandiae baudinianus)
• emu apple(Kunzea pomiferaandOwenia acidula)
• emu berry
• emu bob
• emu bush(Eremophilaspp.,Polidiaspp.,Heterodendron oleaefolium,Hakea laurina)
• emu leather
• emu-less
• emu-like
• emu oil
• emu parade
• emu patrol
• Emu Plains
• emu-proof
• emutail
• emu tree(Hakea francisiana)
• Emu Wars
• emuwary
• emu-wren(Stipiturusspp.)

Descendants

• →Japanese:エミュー
• →Polish:emu

Translations

Dromaius novaehollandiae

• Afrikaans:emoe(af)
• Alawa:djinaliri
• Anindilyakwa:marluwiya
• Arabic:دُرْمِيس أُسْتُرَالِيّm(dormīs ʔusturāliyy)
• Armenian:էմու(hy)(ēmu),ավստրալիական ջայլամ(avstraliakan ǰaylam)
• Assamese:ইমু(imu)
• Asturian:emú(ast)
• Bardi:iniini
• Barngarla:warradya
• Belarusian:э́муm(ému)
• Bulgarian:ему(emu)
• Burarra:wurrparn
• Catalan:emú
• Cherokee:ᎡᎳᏗᏝ ᎬᎾ ᎤᏔᎾ(eladitla gvna utana),ᎢᎽ ᎬᎾ ᎤᏔᎾ(imu gvna utana)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin:Nhi 鶓／Nhi miêu(zh)(érmiáo)

• Czech:emu(cs)m
• Danish:emu
• Darkinjung:gungurung
• Dutch:emoe(nl)m
• Eastern Arrernte:arleye
• Esperanto:emuo
• Estonian:emu(et)
• Finnish:emu(fi)
• French:émeu(fr)m,émeus(fr)mpl
• Gabi:nguruin
• Galician:emum
• Gamilaraay:thinawan
• Garawa:kananganja
• German:Emu(de)m
• Gooniyandi:garnanganyja
• Greek:εμού(el)n(emoú)
• Guugu Yimidhirr:burriway,ngunhdhangunhdha(avoidance language)
• Hebrew:אמו
• Hindi:एमू(emū)
• Hungarian:emu(hu)
• Icelandic:emúim
• Ido:emuo(io)
• Indonesian:emu
• Interlingua:emu
• Irish:éamúm
• Italian:emù(it)m
• Japanese:エミュー(ja)(emyū),Nhi 鶓(ja)(emyū)
• Kala Lagaw Ya:samu
• Kaurna:kardi,taitya,kurdikurdi
• Korean:에뮤(emyu)
• Kriol:emiyu,imiyu
• Kunbarlang:marntep
• Lithuanian:emu(lt)
• Malay:emu
• Malayalam:എമു(ml)(emu)
• Maori:īmū
• Martuthunira:jankurna
• Narungga:garrdi
• Navajo:tsídiitsoh ditsʼozígíí
• Ngadjuri:waridji
• Ngalakan:ngurrurndutj
• Ngalkbun:ngurrurdu
• Ngarla:jankurna
• Ngarrindjeri:pinyali,yarli,breki
• Norwegian:emum
• Nyulnyul:wirnin
• Nyunga:weitj
• Pitjantjatjara:kaḻaya,tjakipiri
• Polish:emu(pl)
• Portuguese:emu(pt)m
• Romanian:emu(ro)m
• Russian:э́му(ru)m(ému)
• Samoan:emeu
• Serbo-Croatian:emu(sh)
• Slovene:emu(sl)m
• Spanish:emú(es)m
• Swedish:emu(sv)c
• Telugu:ఈము(te)(īmu)
• Tiwi:yimiyuwu
• Turkish:emu
• Ukrainian:е́муm(ému)
• Walmajarri:karnanganyja
• Wardaman:gumurrinji
• Warlpiri:karlaya
• Welsh:emiwm,emiwiaidmpl
• Wiradjuri:nguurruuyn,dhinawan(northern dialect)
• Worora:jebarranya
• Yiddish:עמוm(emu)

Further reading

• emuon Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Dromaius novaehollandiaeon Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Dromaius novaehollandiaeon Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Etymology 2

Frome(lectro)m(agnetic) u(nit).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation,General American)IPA^(key):/ˈiːɛmˌjuː/

• Audio(Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

emu(pluralemu)

1. (physics)Initialism ofelectromagnetic unit.

   Synonym:EMU

   • 1941,Henry A[ugustus Perkins],edited byE[dward] U[hler] Condon,College Physics(Prentice-Hall Physics Series), New York, N.Y.:Prentice-Hall,→OCLC,page403:

     A bar magnet NS has poles of strength 144emu,5 cm apart.

   • 1962,“Abstracts of Papers Submitted for the Meeting in Houston: November 12–14, 1962”, inGeological Society of America: Abstracts for 1962: Abstracts of Papers Submitted for Six Meetings with which the Society was Associated(Special GSA Papers;no. 73), New York, N.Y.:Geological Society of America,published1963,→OCLC,page141:

     Rock Magnetic Properties as Related to a Magnetometer Profile for Serpentines, Sierra Nevada, California / DuBOIS, ROBERT L.,Dept. Geology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Ariz./ The remanent magnetism of a suite of specimens from a serpentine mass in the Sierra Nevada, California, has a declination of N. 32°E. and an inclination of plus 84°. The average intensity is 80 × 10⁻⁵emu/cc.

   • 1974,William Berkson, “Maxwell’s Field Theory”, inFields of Force: The Development of a World View from Faraday to Einstein,London:Routledge & Kegan Paul,→ISBN;republished Abingdon, Oxon., New York, N.Y.:Routledge,2014,→ISBN,page168:

     The amount of charge named by oneemuis that which produces a unit magnetic effect when flowing in a current at one unit length per second.

   • 1976,John Aloysius O’Keefe,Tektites and Their Origin(Developments in Petrology; 4), Amsterdam, New York, N.Y.:Elsevier Scientific Pub. Co.,→OCLC,page109:

     Early investigations showed no detectable magnetic intensity in tektite glass, at the level of about 10⁻⁴emu/g. (To convert measurements inemu/g to S.I., multiply by 10³.)

   • 2005,Peter Mohn, “Experimental Basis of Ferromagnetism”, inMagnetism in the Solid State: An Introduction(Solid-State Sciences), Berlin:Springer-Verlag,→ISBN,→ISSN,page39:

     Experimentally the magnetic moment is usually given in units ofemu/g,emu/cm³oremu/mole.

Translations

initialism ofelectromagnetic unit

Further reading

• centimetre–gram–second system of unitson Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 3

Fromemu(lator).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation)IPA^(key):/ˈɛmjuː/
• (General American)IPA^(key):/ˈɛmju/

Noun

emu(pluralemus)

1. (computing,video games,informal)Clipping ofemulator.
   • 2005February 24, Dane L. Galden, “Could this be used for classic emus on GBA?”, inrec.games.video.classic‎^[2](Usenet), message-ID <[email protected]>:

     Saw this article for playing downloadable games on GBA. It's an official Nintendo product in Japan, and thought it might be useful for Nintendo to release actualemusand some of their older game properties (beyond the $20 classic series).

Translations

clipping ofemulator—see alsoemulator

Further reading

• emulatoron Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• MEU,Meu,UME,Ume,meu,mue,ume

Czech

Noun

emumanim

1. emu(large flightless bird native to Australia)

Declension

Also indeclinable.

Declension ofemu(masculine animate in -u)

	singular	plural
nominative	emu	emuové
genitive	emua	emuů
dative	emuovi	emuům
accusative	emua	emuy
vocative	emu	emuové
locative	emuovi	emuech
instrumental	emuem	emuy

Esperanto

Verb

emu

1. imperative ofemi

Fijian

Etymology

Borrowed fromEnglishemu.

Noun

emu

1. emu

Finnish

Etymology

FromEnglishemu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/ˈemu/,[ˈe̞mu]
• Rhymes:-emu
• Syllabification^(key):e‧mu

Noun

emu

1. emu(Dromaius novaehollandiae,the only extant species in its genus)

Declension

Inflectionofemu(Kotustype 1/valo,no gradation)
nominative		emu	emut
genitive		emun	emujen
partitive		emua	emuja
illative		emuun	emuihin
		singular	plural
nominative		emu	emut
accusative	nom.	emu	emut
	gen.	emun
genitive		emun	emujen
partitive		emua	emuja
inessive		emussa	emuissa
elative		emusta	emuista
illative		emuun	emuihin
adessive		emulla	emuilla
ablative		emulta	emuilta
allative		emulle	emuille
essive		emuna	emuina
translative		emuksi	emuiksi
abessive		emutta	emuitta
instructive		—	emuin
comitative		See the possessive forms below.

Possessive formsofemu(Kotustype 1/valo,no gradation)

first-person singular possessor singular plural nominative emuni emuni accusative nom. emuni emuni gen. emuni genitive emuni emujeni partitive emuani emujani inessive emussani emuissani elative emustani emuistani illative emuuni emuihini adessive emullani emuillani ablative emultani emuiltani allative emulleni emuilleni essive emunani emuinani translative emukseni emuikseni abessive emuttani emuittani instructive — — comitative — emuineni second-person singular possessor singular plural nominative emusi emusi accusative nom. emusi emusi gen. emusi genitive emusi emujesi partitive emuasi emujasi inessive emussasi emuissasi elative emustasi emuistasi illative emuusi emuihisi adessive emullasi emuillasi ablative emultasi emuiltasi allative emullesi emuillesi essive emunasi emuinasi translative emuksesi emuiksesi abessive emuttasi emuittasi instructive — — comitative — emuinesi first-person plural possessor singular plural nominative emumme emumme accusative nom. emumme emumme gen. emumme genitive emumme emujemme partitive emuamme emujamme inessive emussamme emuissamme elative emustamme emuistamme illative emuumme emuihimme adessive emullamme emuillamme ablative emultamme emuiltamme allative emullemme emuillemme essive emunamme emuinamme translative emuksemme emuiksemme abessive emuttamme emuittamme instructive — — comitative — emuinemme second-person plural possessor singular plural nominative emunne emunne accusative nom. emunne emunne gen. emunne genitive emunne emujenne partitive emuanne emujanne inessive emussanne emuissanne elative emustanne emuistanne illative emuunne emuihinne adessive emullanne emuillanne ablative emultanne emuiltanne allative emullenne emuillenne essive emunanne emuinanne translative emuksenne emuiksenne abessive emuttanne emuittanne instructive — — comitative — emuinenne third-person possessor singular plural nominative emunsa emunsa accusative nom. emunsa emunsa gen. emunsa genitive emunsa emujensa partitive emuaan emuansa emujaan emujansa inessive emussaan emussansa emuissaan emuissansa elative emustaan emustansa emuistaan emuistansa illative emuunsa emuihinsa adessive emullaan emullansa emuillaan emuillansa ablative emultaan emultansa emuiltaan emuiltansa allative emulleen emullensa emuilleen emuillensa essive emunaan emunansa emuinaan emuinansa translative emukseen emuksensa emuikseen emuiksensa abessive emuttaan emuttansa emuittaan emuittansa instructive — — comitative — emuineen emuinensa

Further reading

• “emu”,inKielitoimiston sanakirja[Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[3](in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki:Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus(Institute for the Languages of Finland),2004–,retrieved2023-07-02

Anagrams

• ume

Galician

Noun

emum(pluralemus)

1. emu

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):[ˈɛmu]
• Hyphenation:e‧mu
• Rhymes:-mu

Noun

emu(pluralemuk)

1. emu

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	emu	emuk
accusative	emut	emukat
dative	emunak	emuknak
instrumental	emuval	emukkal
causal-final	emuért	emukért
translative	emuvá	emukká
terminative	emuig	emukig
essive-formal	emuként	emukként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	emuban	emukban
superessive	emun	emukon
adessive	emunál	emuknál
illative	emuba	emukba
sublative	emura	emukra
allative	emuhoz	emukhoz
elative	emuból	emukból
delative	emuról	emukról
ablative	emutól	emuktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	emué	emuké
non-attributive possessive - plural	emuéi	emukéi

Possessive formsofemu
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	emum	emuim
2nd person sing.	emud	emuid
3rd person sing.	emuja	emui
1st person plural	emunk	emuink
2nd person plural	emutok	emuitok
3rd person plural	emujuk	emuik

Further reading

• emuinBárczi, GézaandLászló Országh.A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára( “The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.:ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992:→ISBN
• emuinNóra Ittzés, editor,A magyar nyelv nagyszótára[A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó,2006–2031(work in progress; publisheda–ezas of 2024).

Japanese

Romanization

emu

1. Rōmajitranscription ofえむ
2. Rōmajitranscription ofエム

Nupe

Etymology 1

Èmu

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/è.mũ̄/

Noun

èmu(pluralèmuzhì)

1. baobabfruit

Derived terms

• muci(“baobab tree”)

See also

• kúka(“baobab leaf”)

Etymology 2

Fromè-(“nominalizing prefix”)+‎mu(“to be tasty”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/è.mũ̄/

Noun

èmu

1. tastiness

Polish

emu

Etymology

BorrowedfromEnglishemu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/ˈɛmu/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes:-ɛmu
• Syllabification:e‧mu

Noun

emun(indeclinable)

1. emu(any ratite of the genusDromaius)

Further reading

• emuinWielki słownik języka polskiego,Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• emuin Polish dictionaries at PWN
• emuin PWN's encyclopedia

Portuguese

Etymology

BorrowedfromEnglishemu,fromPortugueseema(“rhea”).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil)IPA^(key):/eˈmu/

• (Portugal)IPA^(key):/ˈɛ.mu/,/eˈmu/

• Rhymes:-u

Noun

emum(pluralemus)

1. emu

Related terms

• ema,avestruz

Romanian

Etymology

BorrowedfromFrenchémouorGermanEmu.

Noun

emum(pluralemu)

1. emu

Declension

Declension ofemu

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un)emu	emuul	(niște)emu	emui
genitive/dative	(unui)emu	emuului	(unor)emu	emulor
vocative	emuule		emulor

Sakizaya

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/ə.ˈmu/,[ə.ˈmu]

Noun

emu

1. nian gao(aChinese New Year's cake made of glutinous rice flour)

Swedish

Noun

emuc

1. anemu

Declension

Declension ofemu
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	emu	emun	emuer	emuerna
Genitive	emus	emuns	emuers	emuernas

Tooro

Tooro numbers^(edit)

		10
		1	2 →[a],[b]	10 →
Cardinal:-mu,(in abstract counting)emu Ordinal:-a okubanza Adverbial:kubanza,enyalimu,omurundi gumu

Etymology

FromProto-Bantu*-mòì.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key):/éːmu/

Numeral

emu

1. one
2. inflection of-mu:
   1. class 4
   2. class 9