ту

Alutor

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tu/

Conjunction

ту (tu) (emphatic то)

1. and, then

   То ынӈин намалгитан ыньаньньус аӈинмысъатылъын.

   Then (the parents) saw (their daughter) who was talking alone.

See also

• г'оро

References

• Comrie, Bernard and Polinsky, Maria. (1993) Causatives and Transitivity

Carpathian Rusyn

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *tu.

Adverb

ту • (tu)

1. there, here, in the said place

   Його найновше выданя можете видіти ту

   Joho najnovše vŷdanja možete vydity tu

   Here you can find the latest editions of that journal

Related terms

• гев (hev)

Chuvash

Etymology 1

Historically from тăв (tăv) (< тав (taw) < тау (tau)), from Proto-Turkic *tāg.

Noun

ту • (tu) (plural тусем) 

1. mountain

Etymology 2

From Volga Bulgar طن (tan). Unclear relation with Tatar туу (tuwu).

Verb

ту • (tu)

1. to do

References

Dungan

Etymology

Cognate of Mandarin Chinese 頭／头 (tóu)

Noun

ту • (tu)

1. head

Kazakh

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Adjective

ту • (tu)

1. (livestock) barren

Etymology 2

Interjection

ту • (tu)

1. an expression of surprise or regret

Etymology 3

Ultimately from Old Chinese 纛 (OC *duːɡs, *duːɡ, “banner made of animal tail or feather”).

Noun

ту • (tu)

1. flag

Declension

Synonyms

• байрақ (bairaq)

Derived terms

• тушы (tuşy)

Moksha

Verb

ту • (tu)

1. connegative of тумс (tums)

Nivkh

Etymology

Possibly related to Ainu ト (to, “lake”).

Noun

ту (tu)

1. lake

Old Church Slavonic

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *tu.

Adverb

ту • (tu)

1. there, in that place (general)
2. here

Ossetian

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian , from Proto-Indo-Iranian , from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ptyēw- (“to spit, vomit”). Akin to Persian تف (tof, “spittle”), Sanskrit ष्ठीवति (ṣṭhīvati, “to spit”), Armenian թուք (tʻukʻ, “spit, spittle”), Serbo-Croatian pljuvati (“to spit”), Ancient Greek πτύω (ptúō, “to spit out”), Latin spuō (“to spit”), English spew.

Noun

ту • (tu)

1. spit, spittle

   ту кӕнын ― tu kænyn ― to spit

Russian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Etymology 1

Determiner

ту • (tu) f sg (demonstrative)

1. feminine accusative singular of тот (tot)

Pronoun

ту • (tu) f sg (demonstrative)

1. feminine accusative singular of тот (tot)

Etymology 2

Interjection

ту • (tu)

1. (onomatopoeia) the sound of a train horn

   Ту-ту! ― Tu-tu! ― Choo-choo!

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tu.

Adverb

ту̑ (Latin spelling tȗ)

1. there, here, in the said place
   • 1788, Доситеј Обрадовић, Свиња и храст:

     Свиња долазаше често под један жировити храст, и ту се с жиром храњаше. Храст јој рече једном: „Колико се с мојим плодом питаш, а никада нећеш на ме да погледаш, ни да ми захвалиш!”

     A swine went often under an acorn oak, and there it munched acorn. The oak said at once to the swine: “As much as you feed yourself with my fruits, nonetheless you never look at me, nor thank me!”

Synonyms

• (Croatia) туј

Related terms

• о́вдје, та̏мо

Solombala English

Etymology

Inherited from English two.

Ingvild Broch (1996) made a mistake in reading the original text, where ту (tu) was written in italics as ту, which is why he mistakenly perceived it as мы (my) , which is supposedly from English me.

Numeral

ту (tu)

1. two (2)
   • 1849 [1848], Vereščagin, Vasilij P., Очерки Архангельской губерніи [Sketches from Arkhangelsk Governorate]‎, Saint Petersburg: Typography of Yakov Trey, pages 406–407:

     Асей, асей! Дай ту копѣйки!

     Asej, asej! Daj tu kopějki!

     Sailor, sailor! Give me two kopeks!

References

• Broch, Ingvild (1996) “Solombala-English in Archangel”, in Jahr, Ernst Håkon, Broch, Ingvild, editors, Language Contact in the Arctic: Northern Pidgins and Contact Languages (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs (TiLSM); 88)‎, reprint edition, Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, published 2011, →DOI, →ISBN, page 95 of 93–98

Southern Altai

Etymology 1

From Proto-Turkic *ti- (“that”). Cognate to Kyrgyz тиги (tigi), etc.

Pronoun

ту • (tu)

1. that

Synonyms

• тиги (tigi)

References

N. A. Baskakov, Toščakova N.A, editor (1947), “ту”, in Ojrotsko-Russkij Slovarʹ [Oyrot-Russian Dictionary], Moscow: M.: OGIZ, →ISBN

Etymology 2

Compare to Kyrgyz туу (tuu).

Noun

ту • (tu)

1. flag

References

“ту”, in Grammatika Altajskovo Jazyka [Altaic language Grammar], Kazan: V universtiteskoj til, 1869, →ISBN

Tajik

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian *túH, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *túH, from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t̪u/

Pronoun

ту • (tu)

1. you, thou (informal, grammatically singular)

See also

• шумо (šumo) (informal, grammatically plural)
• Шумо (Šumo) (formal, polite and grammatically plural)

Tundra Nenets

Etymology

From Proto-Samoyedic *tuj, from Proto-Uralic *tule. Cognates include Finnish tuli and Northern Sami dolla.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: ту

Noun

ту • (tu)

1. fire
2. light

Declension

Derived terms

References

• Pyrerka, A. P., Tereščenko, N. M. (1948) Русско-ненецкий словарь [Russian–Nenets Dictionary], Moscow: Огиз, page 163
• N. M. Tereschenko (2005) “ту”, in Словарь ненецко-русский и русско-ненецкий, 3rd edition, Saint Petersburg: Просвещение, →ISBN
• Irina Nikolaeva (2014) A Grammar of Tundra Nenets, Walter de Gruyter GmbH, →ISBN, page 63

Ukrainian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Determiner

ту • (tu)

1. accusative feminine singular of той (toj)

Yagnobi

Pronoun

ту (tu)

1. (informal, grammatically singular) you, thou