plu.
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plu.
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PLU
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plu
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/ pluː /
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W., mood-weary, holds head-watch o’er friend and foe.—B. suggests taking the word as dat. inst. plu. of an abstract noun in -‘u.’
From Beowulf An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem by Hall, Lesslie
The word is extant in Old English only in the Glossaries, in the gen. sing., "handful beouaes," etc., and in Old Saxon only in the gen. plu. beuuo.
From Beowulf An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn by Chambers, R. W.
S. all, 203, 264, &c.; every one, 104; every part, 224; plu. alle, 2, 150, &c.
From The Lay of Havelok the Dane by Unknown
Ahnungoog, plu. n. a star Ahyah, v. he is, was Ahneen, adv. how?
From Sketch of Grammar of the Chippeway Languages To Which is Added a Vocabulary of some of the Most Common Words by Summerfield, John
To aba, ab, ba answers a sing. umu, um, mu, so that sing. umu-ntu, um-ntu or mu-ntu, a man, a person; plu. aba-ntu, ab-ntu, ba-ntu.
From Man, Past and Present by Haddon, Alfred Court
A PLU sticker has a number and sometimes a bar code.
From The Verge ● Apr. 18, 2022
I took a tiny pencil from the common box, wrote the PLU code on a twist tie and decided maybe I should keep the pencil this trip.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 2022
PLU stickers, which stands for “Price Look Up,” serve an important function in grocery stores: telling the clerk how much to charge for that item.
From New York Times ● Nov. 16, 2021
Later, PLU’s Carson Ketter picked up a fumble that squirted into the end zone and rumbled 100 yards down the sideline for a touchdown, giving PLU a 14-7 lead.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 30, 2017
The PLU crew had to get the shell to American Lake, where they trained and raced.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 16, 2017
Le gros choc de Garnet Hathaway sur Connor McDavid qui n’a pas vraiment plu à Evander Kane !
From Washington Times ● Feb. 3, 2022
Duignan suggests the same etymology for Beoshelle, beos being "the Norman scribe's idea of the gen. plu."
From Beowulf An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn by Chambers, R. W.
Iom plu da fiŝo? ee'ohm ploo dah fee'sho?
From Esperanto Self-Taught with Phonetic Pronunciation by Mann, William W.
The plu, again, in pluma, a feather, is said to be found in pillu, 'to fly.'
From Atlantis : the antediluvian world by Donnelly, Ignatius
Sanskrit plu, πλέω; cf. fleet and float.262.Other similes: ὕνις, and ὕννις, ploughshare, derived by Plutarch from ὗς, boar.
From Lectures on The Science of Language by Müller, Max
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