တူ

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See also: တူး and ᨲᩪ

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Pronunciation

Etymology 1

This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “Not given etymology by STEDT (tu "like (as)"), while Luce gives Old Chinese 對 (OC *tuːbs, “to correspond to”) and Tibetan དོ་ (do), དོད (dod, “equivalent”) as cognates, as well as grouping the word etymologically together with တု (tu., “to imitate, vie with”).[1]”

Verb

တူ • (tu)

  1. to be alike
    Synonym: ဆင်တူ (hcangtu)
  2. to be the same
    Antonym: ကွဲ (kwai:)
  3. to resemble
  4. to seem
    သူ ပင်ပန်းနေတာ နဲ့တူတယ်။ ― su pangpan:neta nai.tutai|| ― He seems to be fatigued.[2]
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Proto-Tibeto-Burman *m-(t/d)u (“nephew, descendant”). Cognate with Mizo tu (“nephew”), as well as Old Chinese 出 (OC *kʰljuds, *kʰljud) in the obscure sense of "nephew, descendant" as seen in the Erya (STEDT).

Noun

တူ • (tu)

  1. nephew
Derived terms

Etymology 3

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s/m-t(w)a ~ *(t/d)u (“hammer, strike, slap”), provisionally set up by STEDT. Cognate with Tibetan ཐོ་བ (tho ba, “hammer”), Old Chinese 鍛 (OC *toːns, “to forge, refine”), 碓 (OC *tuːls, “pestle”).

Noun

တူ • (tu)

  1. hammer
Derived terms

Etymology 4

Borrowed from Hokkien 箸 (tū). Compare Lü ᦏᦴᧈ (ṫhuu¹), Lao ຖູ່ (thū).

Noun

တူ • (tu)

  1. chopsticks

Etymology 5

Borrowed from Pali tulā (“scales”). Compare Khmer តុលា (tolaa), Thai ตุลา (dtù-laa).

Proper noun

တူ • (tu)

  1. (astrology) Libra (zodiacal sign)

See also

Zodiac signs in Burmese · ရာသီရုပ် (rasirup) (layout · text)
မိဿ (mi.ssa.) ပြိဿ (pri.ssa.) မေထုန် (mehtun) ကရကဋ် (ka.ra.kat)
သိဟ် (sih) ကန် (kan) တူ (tu) ဗြိစ္ဆာ (brichca)
ဓနု (dha.nu.) မကရ (ma.ka.ra.) ကုံ (kum) မိန် (min)

References

  1. ^ Luce, G. H. (1981) “-U Finals (24. to Liken; make Image; to be Like)”, in A Comparative Word-List of Old Burmese, Chinese and Tibetan, London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, →ISBN, page 32
  2. ^ People's Forum on Burma, Shwe Ba (2015) 話せる・伝わる ミャンマー語入門 CD付 (in Japanese), Tokyo: Taishukanshoten, →ISBN, page 86

Further reading

  • “တူ” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.
  • “တူ, 1; တူ, 2; တူ, 3; တူ, 4; တူ, 5” in The Judson Burmese–English Dictionary (Rangoon: American Baptist Mission Press 1921), page 487.

Mon

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Proper noun

တူ (tao)

  1. Libra (zodiacal sign)

Etymology 2

Verb

တူ (transliteration needed)

  1. (intransitive) to burn[1]

Adjective

တူ (transliteration needed)

  1. hot; burning
Derived terms

(Verbs)

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Jenny, Mathias (2015) “Modern Mon”, in Mathias Jenny and Paul Sidwell, editors, The Handbook of Austroasian Languages‎, volume 1, Leiden and Boston: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 568 of 553–600

Shan

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Proto-Tai *tuːᴬ (“door”). Cognate with Thai ตู (dtuu), Northern Thai ᨲᩪ (old) or ᨸᨲᩪ (modern), Southern Thai ตู, Lao ປະຕູ (pa tū), Lü ᦎᦴ (ṫuu), Bouyei dul, Zhuang dou or du.

Noun

တူ • (tǔu)

  1. door
Synonyms

Etymology 2

Cognate with Thai ตู (dtuu), Northern Thai ᨲᩪ (tǔu), Lao ຕູ (tū), Lü ᦎᦴ (ṫuu).

Pronoun

တူ • (tǔu)

  1. I, me
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