thau

Eastern Cham

Alternative forms

• ꨔꨮꨭ

Etymology

From Proto-Chamic *thɔw, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taqu, from Proto-Austronesian *Caqu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʰaʊ/

Verb

thau

1. to know
2. to understand

Latin

Noun

thau n (indeclinable)

1. tav, taw (letter)

References

• thau in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Old Saxon

Etymology

Unknown origin, only in West Germanic, as it were from Proto-Germanic *þawwaz.

Pronunciation

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Noun

thau m

1. habit, custom

Declension

Thao

Etymology

From Proto-Austronesian *Cau (“person, human being”) (compare Tagalog tao). The sense of "pupil (of the eye)" is ultimately from the same root; compare Tagalog balintataw (“pupil”). Association between "child" and "pupil" is universal linguistically; compare English pupil, Mandarin 童 (tóng, “child”), 瞳 (tóng, “pupil”), and Vietnamese người (“person”), ngươi (“pupil”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈθau/

Noun

thau

1. person, human being; in particular, a Thao person
2. pupil, apple of the eye

Vietnamese

Vietnamese Wikipedia has an article on:

thau

Wikipedia ^vi

Etymology

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 鍮 (SV: thâu).

Pronunciation

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Noun

(classifier cái (“basin”)) thau • (𨭡)

1. brass
2. (Central Vietnam, Southern Vietnam) a portable, perfectly circular wash basin; compare bồn (“wall-affixed basin; counter-affixed sink”)

Derived terms

• đồng thau