Is ulula a word?
n. 1. (Zool.) A genus of owls including the great gray owl (Ulula cinerea) of Arctic America, and other similar species.
What is the etymology of Ulula?
Etymology 1
From an imitative reduplicated root, perhaps ultimately Proto-Indo-European *(H)ulu(l)- (“to cry out, howl; owl”).
What is the Latin root of diminutive?
diminutive (adj.)
and directly from Latin diminutivus, earlier deminutivus, from deminut-, past-participle stem of deminuere "lessen, diminish," from de- "completely" (see de-) + minuere "make small" (from PIE root *mei- (2) "small"). Meaning "small, little, narrow, contracted" is from c. 1600.