פְלוּ

Judeo-Italian

Etymology

Derived from Classical Latin plūs (“more; further”), from Old Latin plous, from Proto-Italic *plēōs, from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁yōs, derived from the root *pleh₁- (“to fill”).

Cognate with Italian più, Ladin plu, Sardinian prus.

Adverb

פְלוּ (plu)

1. (with קֵי (qe /⁠che⁠/)) more than
   • 16^th century [750–450 BCE], “לוּ לִיבֵירוֹ דֵי יִרְמִיַהוּ [Lu libero de Jirmiau, The Book of Jeremiah]”, in נְבִיאִים [Neviim, Prophets]‎^[1] (manuscript), translation of נְבִיאִים (Nəvīʾīm, “Prophets”) (in Biblical Hebrew), chapter 7, verse 26, page 3, text lines 2–4:

     אֵי נוּן אִינְטֵיסֵירוֹ אַה מִי אֵי נוּן קְלֵינַארוֹ לַה רֵיקֵילַה לוּרַה אֵי אִינְדוּרִירוֹ לוּ צֵיפֵיצוֹ לוּרוֹ מַאלִינַארוֹ פְלוּ קֵי לִי פַאטֵירִי לוּרִי׃ (Judeo-Roman)

     E nun intesero a mi, e nun clenaro la rechela lura, e induriro lu cepezzo luro; malinnaro plu che li pateri luri.

     And they did not listen to me, and did not incline their ear, and made their neck stiff; they became worse than their fathers.

     (literally, “ […] they worsened more than the fathers of theirs.”)

2. (with קֵי (qe /⁠che⁠/)) rather than
   • 16^th century [750–450 BCE], “לוּ לִיבֵירוֹ דֵי יִרְמִיַהוּ [Lu libero de Jirmiau, The Book of Jeremiah]”, in נְבִיאִים [Neviim, Prophets]‎^[2] (manuscript), translation of נְבִיאִים [Nəvīʾīm, Prophets] (in Biblical Hebrew), chapter 8, verse 3, page 4, text lines 4–7:

     אֵי סֵירַה שֵילְטוֹ מוֹרְטַה פְלוּ קֵי וִיטַה אַה טוּטַה לַה רֵימַאנְיֵינְצִיאַה קֵי סוּנוֹ רֵימַאסִי דֵי לַה סְקֵילַאטַה רִיאַה קוּוֵיסְטַה אִין טוּטִי לִי לוֹקֵירִי קֵי סוּנוֹ רֵימַאסִי קֵי סְפֵינְטִי אַייוֹ אֵיסִי לַה דִיטוֹ דֵי דוּמֵידֵית דֵי צְבַאוֹת׃ (Judeo-Roman)

     e serah šeləṭo morəṭah pəlu qe viṭah ah ṭuṭah lah remanəyyenṣiʾah qe suno remaʾsi de lah səqelaʾṭah riʾah quvesəṭah in ṭuṭi li luqeri qe suno remaʾsi qe səpinəṭi ayyo esi lah diṭo de dumedeṯ de ṣəbāʾōṯ.

     /"E serà scelto morta plu che vita a tutta la remagnenzia che suno remasi de la schelatta ria questa, in tutti li lucheri che suno remasi, che spinti ajo essi là" ditto de Dumedeo de ṣəbāʾōṯ./

     "And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue that has remained of this evil family, in all the places they remain [in], to which I have driven them", [was the] word of the Lord of Sabaoth.