thu

English Online Dictionary. What means thu‎? What does thu mean?

Aghu Tharrnggala

Noun

thu

1. liver

Further reading

• Barry Alpher, Connecting Thaypanic, in Land and Language in Cape York Peninsula and the Gulf Country, edited by Jean-Christophe Verstraete, Diane Hafner

German

Verb

thu

1. singular imperative of thun

Kuku-Thaypan

Noun

thu

1. liver

Further reading

• Barry Alpher, Connecting Thaypanic, in Land and Language in Cape York Peninsula and the Gulf Country, edited by Jean-Christophe Verstraete, Diane Hafner

Middle English

Pronoun

thu

1. Alternative form of þou (“thou”)

Old Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse þú, from Proto-Germanic *þū, from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.

Pronoun

thu

1. thou, you (singular)

Descendants

• Danish: du

Old Dutch

Alternative forms

• tu

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *þū, from Proto-Germanic *þū.

Pronoun

thū

1. thou, you (singular)

Inflection

Descendants

• Middle Dutch: du
  • Dutch: (obsolete) du, dou, douw
  • Limburgish: doe

Further reading

• “thū”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old Frisian

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *þū. Cognates include Old English þū and Old Saxon thū.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈθuː/

Pronoun

thū

1. thou, you (singular)

Inflection

Descendants

• North Frisian:

  Most dialects: dü

  Halligen: du

  Heligoland: di

• Saterland Frisian: du
• West Frisian: do, dû

References

• Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 214

Old High German

Pronoun

thū

1. Alternative form of du

Inflection

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Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *þū, from Proto-Germanic *þū.

Pronoun

thū

1. thou, you (singular)

Declension

Descendants

• Low German: du

Old Swedish

Pronoun

thu

1. Alternative form of þū

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish tú. Cognates include Irish tú and Manx oo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /u/

Pronoun

thu (emphatic thusa, unlenited tu)

1. second-person singular informal pronoun; thou, you

   Ciamar a tha thu, a Dhànaidh? ― How are you, Danny?

Usage notes

• thu is used to address one person in a familiar or informal situation. It is used between friends, and to people who are younger or of inferior social rank to the speaker.
• Children are always addressed using thu.
• It is considered distinctly impolite to address parents, grandparents, teachers, clergymen, etc. with thu, in these situations sibh is required.

Inflection

• tu (used after verb forms ending in -n, -s or -dh)

See also

References

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “thu”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “tú”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [tʰu˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [tʰʊw˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [tʰʊw˧˧]

Etymology 1

Sino-Vietnamese word from 秋.

Noun

thu

1. autumn; fall

   Synonym: mùa thu

Derived terms

See also

Etymology 2

Sino-Vietnamese word from 收.

Verb

thu

1. to get (something) back; to retrieve
2. Short for thu âm (“to record”).

   Synonym: thâu

Derived terms

Welsh

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /θɨː/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /θiː/
• Homophone: thŷ; (South Wales) thi

Noun

thu

1. Aspirate mutation of tu.

Mutation