udo
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- noun
- /ˈuːdoʊ/
- Moreover, this instability was compounded in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries by one more factor which further served to make the -udo participles an unwelcome complication in the system.
Examples
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The chef recommended using udo in the soup to enhance its nutritional value.
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I added some chopped udo to the stir-fry for extra crunch and flavor.
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In Galician-Portuguese documents, the -udo participle is extremely common in early vernacular.
Academic text (1996) -
I use only good quality EFAs (Udos or fish oil).
Blog text (8) -
A number of -udo participles appear in Old Spanish and Old Portuguese, but the evidence indicates that in all probability the -udo ending never became firmly established in central and western Ibero-Romance.
Academic text (1996) -
In conclusion, I believe that careful scrutiny of the available evidence indicates the following: the -udo participle was undoubtedly native to the Iberian Peninsula, inherited directly from Hispanic Latin.
Academic text (1996) -
The number of Spanish and Portuguese -udo participles in the twelfth century and the early decades of the thirteenth is quite small, even when we take into account the exiguous quantity of preserved texts.
Academic text (1996) -
The existence of such a form precludes the possibility that the -udo ending was simply incorporated into the teer paradigm during the twelfth or thirteenth centuries.
Academic text (1996) -
First, we need to scrutinize early texts for evidence of -udo participles; and second, we need to look at the level of correspondence between participial constructions of this type in the Peninsula and in varieties of Gallo-Romance.
Academic text (1996) -
One of the most visible developments was the loss of -udo as a participial ending for verbs of the second conjugation (i.e., those with infinitives in -er).
Academic text (1996)
Surface Forms
Etymology
Udo comes from the Japanese word udo, the local name for a crisp, edible spring plant; like sushi and tofu, English kept the original Japanese name, so udo in English simply means that particular vegetable.