ту

• IPA^(key): /tu/

ту (tu) (emphatic то)

1. and, then

   То ынӈин намалгитан ыньаньньус аӈинмысъатылъын. ^[1]

   Then (the parents) saw (their daughter) who was talking alone.

• г'оро

• Comrie, Bernard and Polinsky, Maria. (1993) Causatives and Transitivity

From Proto-Slavic *tu.

ту • (tu)

1. there, here, in the said place

   Його найновше выданя можете видіти ту

   Joho najnovše vŷdanja možete vydity tu

   Here you can find the latest editions of that journal

• гев (hev)

From late Middle Chuvash *tu, from earlier Middle Chuvash *tai̯, from Old Chuvash *tåw, from Proto-Oghuric *taɣ,^[1] from Proto-Turkic *tāg.

ту • (tu) (3rd person possessive [please provide], plural тусем) 

1. mountain

From Volga Bulgar طن (tan). Unclear relation with Tatar туу (tuwu).

ту • (tu)

1. to do

Cognate of Mandarin Chinese 頭／头 (tóu)

ту • (tu)

1. head

• IPA^(key): /tʊw/, [tʰuw]

• Audio:

  (file)

ту • (tu)

1. (livestock) barren

ту • (tu)

1. an expression of surprise or regret

Ultimately from Old Chinese 纛 (OC *duːɡs, *duːɡ, “banner made of animal tail or feather”).

ту • (tu)

1. flag

• байрақ (bairaq)
• жалау (jalau)

• тушы (tuşy)

Inherited from Proto-Yeniseian *tʰu (“this”, demonstrative pronoun).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /¹tu/, [tuˑ˧]

ту (tū)

1. this, these (generic proximal demonstrative pronoun)

• Also found used as турь (tūdʲ, m), туре (túde, f or m) or туне (túne, anim pl).

Inherited from Proto-Yeniseian *tʰu (“raw, uncooked; unripe”, adjective), derived from Proto-Yeniseian *tʰugʌ (“raw”).^[2]

• IPA^(key): /¹tu/, [tuˑ˧]

ту (tū)

1. raw, uncooked

Featured without a proper etymology by CHYD, but compared to Yug ту (tū, “area between the breasts”).^[3][4]

• IPA^(key): /¹tu/, [tuˑ˧]

ту (tū) n (plural тунеӈ)

1. cleavage, area between the breasts; interscapular region, upper part of the back between the shoulderblades

• Usually glossed in Russian as the colloquial word загорбок (zagorbok, “area between the shoulders”).
• The gloss 'cleavage' can refer to the 'area between the breasts' for both men and women, unlike the English equivalent.

Attested only in forms audited by Kai Donner in the year 1955.^[5]

• IPA^(key): /…tu/, […tu]

ту ([n²]-tu⁰) (conjugation class IV)

1. (intransitive, telic) subject climbs down

• Not found listed for Modern Ket in BSKJa, CHYD, MSKG or VWdJS. This form is only included for completion sake.
• The conjugations recorded by Kai Donner are;
  • (p. 34) /dittu/ [d̜ittu] (Díttu. «di⁸꞊di¹-tu⁰», “I climb down.”)
  • (p. 61) /kugətu/ [kùʸə̑tu] (Kúktu. «ku⁸꞊ku¹-tu⁰», “Thou climbest down.”)
  • (p. 38) /dujetə/ [dùi̯əˑtə̑] (Dújatu. «du⁸꞊a¹-tu⁰», “He climbs down.”)

• Werner, Heinrich (2002), Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, volume 2, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, pages 284, 294-295
• Kotorova, Elizaveta; Nefedov, Andrey (2015), Большой словарь кетского языка, Münich: LINCOM, →ISBN, pages 389-390

From Ancient Greek τό (tó), the neuter-gender article. Cognate with Greek ο (o), το (to).

• IPA^(key): [tʊ]
• Hyphenation: ту

ту • (tu)

1. The definite article: the
   • 2018 [19th c.], I. E. Vasilyeva, M. L. Kisilier, “«Греческий миф» у греков Приазовья [A «Greek myth» of the Priazov Greeks]”, in Индоевропейское языкознание и классическая филология, volume 22, number 1, page 281:

     Педъыя ту Ираклеос, дърамете ме спатъыя!

     Pjeðyja tu Irakljeos, ðramjetje mje spaθyja!

     Sons of Heracles, run with your swords!

ту • (tu)

1. that

• A. A. Diamantopulo-Rionis with D. L. Demerdzhi, A. M. Davydova-Diamantopulo, A. A. Shapurma, R. S. Kharabadot, and D. K. Patricha (2006), “ту́”, in Румейско-русский и русско-румейский словарь пяти диалектов греков Приазовья, Mariupol, →ISBN, page 192
• G. A. Animica; M. P. Galikbarova (2013), Румеку глоса‎^[1], Donetsk, page 19

ту • (tu)

1. connegative of тумс (tums)

Possibly related to Ainu ト (to, “lake”).

• IPA^(key): /tu/

ту (tu)

1. lake

• 丹菊逸治 (Itsuji Tangiku) (2014), ニヴフ語サハリン方言語彙集 (“Sakhalin Nivkh word list”)‎^[2] (in Japanese), Sapporo: 北海道大学アイヌ・先住民研究センター (“Center for Ainu and Indigenous Studies, Hokkaido University”), page 228

Regional variants of ту

Sakhalin dialects
East Sakhalin	ту
Amur dialects
Lower Amur	ты

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /tu/

ту (tu) (East Sakhalin)

1. this

   нин ту муғир виныд. ― ņin tu muγir vinəd. ― We'll take this boat.

• туд (tud)

• Č. M. Taksami (1983), Словарь нивхско-русский и русско-нивхский [Nivkh-Russian and Russian-Nivkh Dictionary] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Saint Petersburg: «Просвещение» Ленинградское отделение, published 1996, →ISBN, page 102.

From Proto-Slavic *tu.

ту • (tu)

1. there, in that place (general)
2. here

• туто (tuto)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tu.

ту (tu)

1. there, in that place
2. here
   • 1110s, Hypatian Codex:

     и сруби горо(д) надъ волхово(м) и прозваша и новъгоро(д) и сѣде ту кнѧж(а).

     i srubi goro(d) nadŭ volxovo(m) i prozvaša i novŭgoro(d) i sěde tu knęž(a).

     and chop a town above Volkhov, and named it Novgorod, and sit here, reigning

• Belarusian: тут (tut)
• Russian: тут (tut)
• Carpathian Rusyn: ту (tu), туй (tuj)
• Ukrainian: тут (tut)

From Proto-Iranian [Term?], from Proto-Indo-Iranian [Term?], from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ptyēw- (“to spit, vomit”). Akin to Persian تف (tof, “spittle”), Sanskrit ष्ठीवति (ṣṭhīvati, “to spit”), Armenian թուք (tʻukʻ, “spit, spittle”), Serbo-Croatian pljuvati (“to spit”), Ancient Greek πτύω (ptúō, “to spit out”), Latin spuō (“to spit”), English spew.

ту • (tu)

1. spit, spittle

   ту кӕнын ― tu kænyn ― to spit

Inherited from Old Slovak tu, from Proto-Slavic *tu. Cognate with Carpathian Rusyn ту (tu) and Slovak tu.

• IPA^(key): [ˈtu]
• Rhymes: -u
• Hyphenation: ту

ту (tu)

1. here (at this place)

   Coordinate term: там (tam)

2. here (at this time)

• Medʹeši, H.; Fejsa, M.; Timko-Djitko, O. (2010), “ту”, in Ramač, Ju., editor, Руско-сербски словнїк [Rusyn-Serbian Dictionary] (in Pannonian Rusyn), Novi Sad: Faculty of Philosophy

• IPA^(key): [tu]

ту • (tu) f sg (demonstrative)

1. feminine accusative singular of тот (tot)

ту • (tu) f sg (demonstrative)

1. feminine accusative singular of тот (tot)

ту • (tu)

1. (onomatopoeia) the sound of a train horn

   Ту-ту! ― Tu-tu! ― Choo-choo!

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tu.

ту̑ (Latin spelling tȗ)

1. there, here, in the said place
   • 1788, Доситеј Обрадовић, Свиња и храст:

     Свиња долазаше често под један жировити храст, и ту се с жиром храњаше. Храст јој рече једном: „Колико се с мојим плодом питаш, а никада нећеш на ме да погледаш, ни да ми захвалиш!”

     A swine went often under an acorn oak, and there it munched acorn. The oak said at once to the swine: “As much as you feed yourself with my fruits, nonetheless you never look at me, nor thank me!”

• (Croatia) туј

• о́вдје, та̏мо

Solombala English numbers ^(edit)

	2
Cardinal: ту (tu)

PIE word
*dwóh₁

Inherited from English two.

Ingvild Broch (1996) made a mistake in reading the original text, where ту (tu) was written in italics as ту, which is why he mistakenly perceived it as мы (my) [mɨ], which is supposedly from English me.

ту (tu)

1. two (2)
   • 1849 [1848], Vereščagin, Vasilij P., Очерки Архангельской губерніи [Sketches from Arkhangelsk Governorate]‎^[3], Saint Petersburg: Typography of Yakov Trey, pages 406–407:

     Асей, асей! Дай ту копѣйки!

     Asej, asej! Daj tu kopějki!

     Sailor, sailor! Give me two kopeks!

• Broch, Ingvild (1996), “Solombala-English in Archangel”, in Jahr, Ernst Håkon, Broch, Ingvild, editors, Language Contact in the Arctic: Northern Pidgins and Contact Languages (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs (TiLSM); 88)‎^[4], reprint edition, Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, published 2011, →DOI, →ISBN, page 95 of 93–98

From Proto-Turkic *ti- (“that”). Cognate to Kyrgyz тиги (tigi), etc.

ту • (tu)

1. that

• тиги (tigi)

N. A. Baskakov, Toščakova N.A, editor (1947), “ту”, in Ojrotsko-Russkij Slovarʹ [Oyrot-Russian Dictionary], Moscow: M.: OGIZ, →ISBN

Compare to Kyrgyz туу (tuu).

ту • (tu)

1. flag

“ту”, in Grammatika Altajskovo Jazyka [Altaic language Grammar], Kazan: V universtiteskoj til, 1869, →ISBN

Inherited from Classical Persian تُو (tū).

• IPA^(key): /tu/, [t̪ʰu]

ту • (tu) (Persian spelling تو)

1. you, thou (informal, grammatically singular)
2. your

From Proto-Samoyedic *tuj, from Proto-Uralic *tule. Cognates include Finnish tuli and Northern Sami dolla.

• IPA^(key): [tu]
• Hyphenation: ту

ту • (tu)

1. fire
2. light

• Pyrerka, A. P.; Tereščenko, N. M. (1948), Русско-ненецкий словарь [Russian–Nenets Dictionary], Moscow: Огиз, page 163
• N. M. Tereschenko (2005), “ту”, in Словарь ненецко-русский и русско-ненецкий, 3rd edition, Saint Petersburg: Просвещение, →ISBN
• Irina Nikolaeva (2014), A Grammar of Tundra Nenets, Walter de Gruyter GmbH, →ISBN, page 63

• IPA^(key): [tu]

ту • (tu)

1. accusative feminine singular of той (toj)

From Old East Slavic ту (tu, “there; thereto; then; here; herewith”), from *tu.

ту • (tu)

1. here (at this place)

   то тут, то там ― to tut, to tam ― here and there

2. here; hither (to this place)
3. in this case; under these circumstances
4. then, at this moment
5. suddenly, unexpectedly

• тут (tut)

ту (tu)

1. (informal, grammatically singular) you, thou