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单词 oonuh
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oonuhpron.adj.

Brit. /ˈuːnə/, /ˈʊnə/, U.S. /ˈunə/, /ˈʊnə/, Caribbean English /ˈuːna/, /ˈuːnʌ/, /ˈʊna/, /ˈʊnʌ/
Forms:

α. 1800s honer, 1800s hoona, 1800s ono, 1800s– ona, 1800s– oona, 1800s– oonoo, 1900s onnoo, 1900s– hoonah, 1900s– hoonuh, 1900s– hunnah, 1900s– hunnuh, 1900s– hunu, 1900s– onoo, 1900s– oonu, 1900s– oonuh, 1900s– una, 1900s– unna, 1900s– unno, 1900s– unnu, 1900s– unnuh, 1900s– uno, 1900s– unoo, 1900s– unu.

β. Bahamian and U.S. regional (southern) 1800s you-no, 1900s yenner, 1900s yonner, 1900s– yeener, 1900s– yinna Brit. /ˈjɪnə/, U.S. /ˈjɪnə/, Caribbean English /ˈjɪna/, /ˈjɪnʌ/, 1900s– yinnah, 1900s– yinner, 1900s– yinnuh, 1900s– you-nay, 1900s– yuner, 1900s– yunna, 1900s– yunnah, 1900s– yunner, 1900s– yunnuh.

γ. Caribbean (chiefly Jamaican and Barbados) 1900s– whunu, 1900s– wunna, 1900s– wunnah Brit. /ˈwʊnə/, U.S. /ˈwʊnə/, Caribbean English /ˈwʊna/, /ˈwʊnʌ/, 1900s– wunno, 1900s– wunnuh, 1900s– wunu.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Igbo. Partly a borrowing from another West African language. Etymon: Igbo unu.
Etymology: Partly (in α. forms) < Igbo unu you, your (both plural), and partly (in β. forms) < its probable cognate in one or more other West African languages (compare e.g. (all plural) Yoruba yín you, yours, Wolof yeen you, Kimbundu enu you, -enu your, Kongo yeno with you).The forms you-no and you-nay at β. forms show remodelling after you pron.; compare earlier you-all pron. The γ. forms reflect a development (with a labial on-glide) of the α. forms within Caribbean English.
U.S. regional (southern, chiefly in African-American usage) and Caribbean.
A. pron.
Chiefly with plural reference: = you pron.
ΚΠ
1867 W. F. Allen et al. Slave Songs of U.S. p. xxv I only know of..oona or ona, ‘you’ (both singular and plural, and used only for friends), as ‘Ona build a house in Paradise’.
1930 T. J. Woofter Black Yeomanry 54 The fisherman is asked, ‘Did oona meet plenty feesh?’
1986 O. P. Adisa Bake-Face & Other Guava Stories 48 Oonuh look like oonuh in anoda world.
2016 N. Dennis-Benn Here comes Sun iii. 49 What oonuh laughing at?
B. adj.
= your adj.
ΚΠ
1922 A. E. Gonzales Black Border 219 Look 'pun-top oonuh tail.
1980 L. D. Tanna Art Jamaican Oral Narr. Performance (Ph.D. thesis, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison) II. 550 Sho unno cyaan put unno clothes dere.
1995 Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 1 June 3 a/2 Oonuh behave oonuh self.
2020 @dajahdollin 31 May in twitter.com (accessed 27 June 2020) Y'all gotta stop tucking yinnuh belly in your pants when you are taking before and after weight loss photos.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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