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thú

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Irish

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Etymology

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From Old Irish .

Pronunciation

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Pronoun

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thú (emphatic form thusa, disjunctive)

  1. you (singular), thee

See also

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Irish personal pronouns
person conjunctive
(emphatic)
disjunctive
(emphatic)
possessive
determiner
singular first
(mise)
mo L
m' before vowel sounds
second
(tusa)1
thú
(thusa)
do L
d' before vowel sounds
third m
(seisean)
é
(eisean)
a L
f
(sise)
í
(ise)
a H
n 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 lenitionE Triggers eclipsisH Triggers h-prothesis

1 Also used as the vocative

The reflexive is formed by adding féin to the relevant pronoun.
For instance, "myself" = mé féin, "yourselves" = sibh féin.

References

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  1. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906), A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 176, page 68

Tày

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Etymology

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Compare Lao ຖູ່ (thū), Northern Thai ᨳᩪ᩵, Khün ᨳᩪ᩵, ᦏᦴᧈ (ṫhuu¹), Shan ထူႇ (thùu).

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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thú (𪳂, )

  1. chopstick

References

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  • Dương Nhật Thanh; Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003), Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày]‎[1] (in Tày and Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học xã hội [Social Sciences Publishing House]
  • Lương Bèn (2011), Từ điển Tày-Việt [Tay-Vietnamese dictionary]‎[2][3] (in Vietnamese), Thái Nguyên: Nhà Xuất bản Đại học Thái Nguyên

Vietnamese

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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    Sino-Vietnamese word from (pleasure).

    Noun

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    thú

    1. a hobby

    Adjective

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    thú

    1. (literary) interesting; intriguing

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    Etymology 2

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      Sino-Vietnamese word from (beast).

      Noun

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      (classifier con) thú

      1. (dated or literary) non-avian beast
        Synonym: muông
      2. (chiefly zoology) mammal
      3. animal (organism)
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      Etymology 3

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        Sino-Vietnamese word from , from the verbal form. The nominal form gave rise to thủ and sỏ (head of butchered animals).

        Verb

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        thú

        1. to confess; to admit; to own to
        2. (colloquial) short for đầu thú (to surrender oneself)
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        Anagrams

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