thau

See also: tháu, thău, thâu, thấu, thầu, and þau

Eastern Cham

Etymology

From Proto-Chamic *thɔw, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taqu, from Proto-Austronesian *Caqu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʰaʊ/

Verb

thau (Akhar Thrah spelling ꨔꨮꨭ)

1. to know
2. to understand

References

• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*Caqu”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

Latin

Noun

thau n (indeclinable)

1. tav, taw (letter)

References

• "thau", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Mizo

Etymology

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *thaaw (“fat”).

Adjective

thau

1. fat, chubby

Noun

thau

1. fat
2. grease

Further reading

• Lorrain, J. Herbert (1940), “thau”, in Dictionary of the Lushai language, Calcutta: Asiatic Society

Old Saxon

Etymology

Unknown origin, only in West Germanic, as it were from Proto-Germanic *þawwaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈθɑ.u]
• (late Old Saxon) IPA^(key): [ˈðɑ.u]

Noun

thau m

1. habit, custom

Declension

thau (masculine a-stem)

	singular	plural
nominative	thau	thauos
accusative	thau	thauos
genitive	thaues	thauō
dative	thaue	thauum
instrumental	—	—

Thao

Etymology

From Proto-Austronesian *Cau (“person, human being”) (compare Tagalog tao). The sense of "pupil (of the eye)" is ultimately from the same root; compare Tagalog balintataw (“pupil”). Association between "child" and "pupil" is universal linguistically; compare English pupil, Mandarin 童 (tóng, “child”), 瞳 (tóng, “pupil”), and Vietnamese người (“person”), ngươi (“pupil”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈθau/

Noun

thau

1. person, human being; in particular, a Thao person
2. pupil, apple of the eye

References

• 原住民族語言線上辭典 [Online Dictionary of Indigenous Languages]‎^[1] (in Mandarin), Taipei: Indigenous Languages Research and Development Foundation, 2014–2025

Vietnamese

Etymology

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 鍮 (SV: thâu).

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [tʰaw˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [tʰaw˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [tʰa(ː)w˧˧]

Noun

(classifier cái, chiếc (“basin”)) thau • (𨭡)

1. brass
2. portable, circular wash basin, often made from metallic materials

Derived terms

• đồng thau

Anagrams

• thua