dú

See also: Appendix:Variations of "du"

Ekit

Verb

dú

1. bite

Further reading

• Bruce Connell, Lower Cross Wordlist

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Jamtish

Alternative forms

• -du, -ðu, -tu (enclitic forms)

Etymology

From Old Norse þú, from Proto-Germanic *þū, from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂; see there for cognates.

Pronoun

dú

1. (in the singular) you (thou)

Declension

Jamtish personal pronouns

person	first person	second person	reflexive	third person
case	singular			singular masculine	singular feminine	singular neuter
nominative	jeg	dú		hann	hú	deð, heð2
accusative	meg	deg	seg	hann	hú	deð, heð2
dative	meg	deg	seg	hanum	henne, hennar	dí, dín
genitive	menn3	denn3	senn3	hans	hennes, hennar	dí, dín
case	plural
nominative	með, vi4	deð, ni2			dum, di1
accusative	oss	dekk, ekk, ni2	seg		dum
dative	oss	dekk, ekk, ni2	seg		dum
genitive	vonn3	dekkan, ekkan, niðan2	senn		dires

¹Archaic; see entry. ²Eastern variant. ³Declines like an adjective; see entry. ⁴Southeast-east variant, universal in Ragunda and Revsund.

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Mandarin

Alternative forms

• du — nonstandard

Pronunciation

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Romanization

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Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *gdū, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰéǵʰōm (“earth”).

Noun

dú f

1. place, spot
2. someone's particular place; native place; patrimony
3. appropriate place; rightful place
4. one's right, one's due

Inflection

Feminine n-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	dú	—	—
Vocative	dú	—	—
Accusative	doinN	—	—
Genitive	don	—	—
Dative	doinL, dúL	—	—
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

• cía dú

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
dú	dú pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/	ndú
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

Note that DIL separates the nominative and oblique stems into separate entries.

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “dú”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 don”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language