ਤੁਸਾਂ

Punjabi

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʊsãː/

Pronoun

ਤੁਸਾਂ • (tusā̃) (Shahmukhi spelling تساں) (obsolete in Eastern Punjabi)

1. oblique of ਤੁਸੀਂ (tusī̃, “you”); ye (in conjunction with prepositions)

   Alternative form: ਤੁਹਾ- (tuhā-)

   ਤੁਸਾਂ 'ਤੇ ਕੀਤਾ

   tusā̃ 'te kītā

   [He] did it on you

2. (by extension) ergative of ਤੁਸੀਂ (tusī̃, “you”); by ye

   ਤੁਸਾਂ ਵੇਖਿਆ ਹੈ?

   tusā̃ vekhiā hai?

   Have you seen it?

Further reading

• Singh, Bhai Maya (1895) “ਤੁਸਾਂ”, in The Panjabi Dictionary, Lahore: Munshi Gulab Singh and Sons.
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “yuṣmad”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 238