Sanskrit

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Etymology

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From Proto-Indo-Iranian *túH-am, from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.

Cognate with Avestan 𐬙𐬏𐬨 (tūm), Old Persian 𐎬𐎺𐎶 (tu-v-m /⁠tuvam⁠/), Ancient Greek σύ (), Latin , Old English þū (whence English thou).

Pronunciation

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Pronoun

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त्वम् (tvám)

  1. you, thou (nominative singular of युष्मद् (yuṣmad))

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References

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  • Whitney, William Dwight (1889) Sanskrit Grammar, second edition, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, published 1950, →OCLC, pages 186-7
  • Hellwig, Oliver (2010-2024) “tvad”, in DCS - The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit, Berlin, Germany.