tu
French
[t͡sy], [ti]
personal pronoun
Definitions
- you singular; thou
Etymology
Inherited from Old French tu inherited from Latin tū (you) inherited from Proto-Italic *tū inherited from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂ (you, thou).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*túh₂
Gloss
you, thou
Concept
Semantic Field
Kinship
Ontological Category
Other
Kanji
君
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- sithee English
- thou English
- thouest English
- tu Latin
- tute Latin
- tē Latin
- tū Latin
- du German
- tu Italian
- ты Russian
- tú Spanish, Castilian
- σύ Ancient Greek
- *téynos Proto-Indo-European
- *túh₂ Proto-Indo-European
- *jūz Proto-Germanic
- *þū Proto-Germanic
- त्वम् Sanskrit
- thou Middle English
- *ty Proto-Slavic
- tu Old French
- ci Esperanto
- cia Esperanto
- tu Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- -u Ido
- tu Ido
- du Middle High German
- che Old Portuguese
- tu Old Portuguese
- *tū Proto-Celtic
- *túH Proto-Indo-Iranian
- *túH, *tuHám Proto-Indo-Iranian
- *túH, *túH-am Proto-Indo-Iranian
- tu Aromanian
- *tū Proto-Italic
- ti Romansh
- tu Asturian
- tu Friulian
- tu Old Occitan
- tu Sicilian
- tu Northern Kurdish
- *twā Proto-Albanian
- *tū Proto-Albanian
- *tū Proto-Balto-Slavic
- te Dalmatian
- toi Dalmatian
- tú Ladino
- טו Ladino
- to Mauritian Creole
- tomem Mauritian Creole
- tuwe Tocharian B
- tu Neapolitan
- ti Istriot
- *tú Proto-Hellenic
- tù Corsican
- to Louisiana Creole French
- tu Tocharian A
- et Emilian
- طو Mozarabic
- τύ grc-dor