Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/túh₂

This Proto-Indo-European entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Indo-European

Alternative forms

• *tī̆, *tū̆, *tuH, *tíh₁, *tu-

Pronoun

*túh₂

1. you, thou (second-person singular pronoun)

Inflection

Derived terms

• *tewos (from gen. *téwe)
  • Hellenic:
    • Ancient Greek: τεός (teós)
  • Proto-Italic: *towos
    • Old Latin: tovos
      • Latin: tuus (see there for further descendants)

Descendants

• Proto-Albanian: *tū (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Anatolian: *tī́ǵ (see there for further descendants)
• Armenian:
  • Old Armenian: դու (du), քեզ (kʿez) (< *twé), քո (kʿo) (< *two-), դուք (dukʿ) (< *tú-s)
    • Armenian: դու (du), քեզ (kʿez), քո (kʿo); դուք (dukʿ)
• Proto-Balto-Slavic: *tūˀ, *tu (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Celtic: *tū (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Germanic: *þū (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Hellenic: *tú (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Indo-Iranian: *túH (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Italic: *tū (see there for further descendants)
• Tocharian:
  • Tocharian A: tu
  • Tocharian B: tuwe

Coordinate terms

• *éǵh₂
• *swé

References

• Kloekhorst, Alwin (2008). "Some Indo-Uralic Aspects of Hittite". The Journal of Indo-European Studies 36:1-2.
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN

Further reading

• Bičanová, Lenka, Blažek, Václav (2014) “Indo-European personal pronouns: limits of theirs internal reconstruction”, in Linguistica Brunensia, volume 62, number 1, page 29
• Oshiro, Terumasa (1988) “Some Luwian words of Indo-European origin”, in Orient, volume 24, page 50: “(8) your (1097)”