tu
Ido
/tu/
personal pronoun
Definitions
- (informal) you singular, thou
Etymology
Borrowed from English thou (address as thou) borrowed from French tu (you) borrowed from German du borrowed from Italian tu borrowed from Spanish, Castilian tú borrowed from Russian ты derived 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
- tē Latin
- tū Latin
- du German
- tu Italian
- tu French
- vous French
- ты Russian
- tutear Spanish, Castilian
- 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
- -u Ido
- du Middle High German
- *tū Proto-Celtic
- *túH Proto-Indo-Iranian
- *túH, *tuHám Proto-Indo-Iranian
- *túH, *túH-am Proto-Indo-Iranian
- *tū Proto-Italic
- tu Northern Kurdish
- *twā Proto-Albanian
- *tū Proto-Albanian
- *tū Proto-Balto-Slavic
- to Mauritian Creole
- tuwe Tocharian B
- *tú Proto-Hellenic
- to Louisiana Creole French
- tu Tocharian A
- τύ grc-dor