The other “uu” words in Finnish feel ancient too. When Finnish children are asked to come up with rhymes, these are often the ones they suggest: luu = bone ku

The other “uu” words in Finnish feel ancient too. When Finnish children are asked to come up with rhymes, these are often the ones they suggest: luu = bone kuu = Moon suu = mouth muu = other You can practically imagine the apes in the first act of the movie “2001” coming up with these words to describe their environment. (The monolith could be a “muu muu”, the Other Other, to distinguish it from the basic “muu” of the other tribe.)