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. more
   • 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.

     [original: וְלוֹא שָׁמְעוּ אֵלַי וְלֹא הִטּוּ אֶת־אָזְנָם וַיַּקְשׁוּ אֶת־עָרְפָּם הֵרֵעוּ מֵאֲבוֹתָם׃]

     Vəlôʾ śāməʿû ʾelay vəlōʾ hiṭṭû ʾeṯ-ʾāzənām vayyaqəšû ʾeṯ-ʿārəppām hereʿû meʾăḇôṯām.

     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 their.”)