thú

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

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish tú.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /huː/^[1]

Pronoun

thú (emphatic form thusa, disjunctive)

you (singular), thee

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

^ 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

(Thạch An – Tràng Định) IPA^(key): [tʰu˧˥]
(Trùng Khánh) IPA^(key): [tʰu˦]

Noun

thú (𪳂, 箸)

chopstick

References

Lục Văn Pảo, Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003) Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày‎^[1] (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học Xã hội
Lương Bèn (2011) Từ điển Tày-Việt‎^[2][3] (in Vietnamese), Thái Nguyên: Nhà Xuất bản Đại học Thái Nguyên

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [tʰu˧˦]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [tʰʊw˨˩˦]
(Saigon) IPA^(key): [tʰʊw˦˥]
Homophone: Thú
Audio (Hà Nội): (file)

Etymology 1

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

Noun

thú

a hobby

Adjective

thú

(literary) interesting; intriguing

Derived terms

Etymology 2

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

Noun

(classifier con) thú

(dated or literary) a non-avian beast
Synonym: muông
(chiefly zoology) a mammal
an animal (organism)

Derived terms

Etymology 3

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

Verb

thú

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

Derived terms

Anagrams

hút

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

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