thú

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See also: thu, thù, thủ, thụ, thư, thứ, and thử

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish tú.

Pronunciation

Pronoun

thú (emphatic form thusa, disjunctive)

  1. you (singular), thee

See also

Irish personal pronouns
Number Person (and gender) Conjunctive
(emphatic) 		Disjunctive
(emphatic) 		Possessive
determiner
Singular First mé
(mise) 		mo L
m' before vowel sounds
Second tú
(tusa)1 		thú
(thusa) 		do L
d' before vowel sounds
Third masculine sé
(seisean) 		é
(eisean) 		a L
Third feminine sí
(sise) 		í
(ise) 		a H
Third neuter — ea —
Plural First muid, sinn
(muidne, muide), (sinne) 		ár E
Second sibh
(sibhse)1 		bhur E
Third siad
(siadsan) 		iad
(iadsan) 		a E

L Triggers lenition E Triggers eclipsis H Triggers h-prothesis

1 Also used as the vocative

The reflexive is formed by adding féin to the relevant pronoun: e.g. "myself" = mé féin, "yourselves" = sibh féin.

References

  1. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 68

Tày

Etymology

Compare Lao ຖູ່ (thū), Northern Thai ᨳᩪ᩵, Khün ᨳᩪ᩵, Lü ᦏᦴᧈ (ṫhuu¹), Shan ထူႇ (thùu).

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Pronunciation

Noun

thú (𪳂, 箸)

  1. chopstick

References

  • Lục Văn Pảo, Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003) Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày‎ (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học Xã hội
  • Lương Bèn (2011) Từ điển Tày-Việt‎ (in Vietnamese), Thái Nguyên: Nhà Xuất bản Đại học Thái Nguyên

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Sino-Vietnamese word from 趣 (“pleasure”).

Noun

thú

  1. a hobby

Adjective

thú

  1. (literary) interesting; intriguing

Derived terms

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Etymology 2

Sino-Vietnamese word from 獸 (“beast”).

Noun

(classifier con) thú

  1. (dated or literary) a non-avian beast
    Synonym: muông
  2. (chiefly zoology) a mammal
  3. an animal (organism)
Derived terms

Etymology 3

Sino-Vietnamese word from 首. Related to thủ (“head”).

Verb

thú

  1. to confess; to admit; to own to
  2. (colloquial) Short for đầu thú (“to surrender oneself”).
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