luku
Pronunciation: /ˈluku/
“luku” is a Finnish word. Its 11 meanings in English:
noun
- number (abstract entity used to describe quantity; in mathematics, a concept such as a natural number, rational number or real number)
- number, count, quantity (a number indicating how many of something there are)
- head count (the act of counting the number of persons present by having them call out numbers starting with one; also an interjection ordering a group to do so)
- chapter (one of the main section into which the text of a book is divided; one of the main part in a legal statute)
- text, writing, something that can be read
- reading
- reading, studying
- chapter (division in a legal statute)
- number (the state of being singular, dual or plural)
- together with a year, used to indicate decade, century or sometimes even millennium; expressed by using the plural number in English
- spell (words, incantation)
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *luku. Equivalent to lukea (“to read, count”) + -u. The grammatical and mathematical senses are from the 19th century.
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