thau
(Redirected from thău)
Eastern Cham
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Chamic *thɔw, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taqu, from Proto-Austronesian *Caqu.
Pronunciation
editVerb
editthau
- to know
- to understand
Latin
editNoun
editthau n (indeclinable)
References
edit- 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)
Old Saxon
editEtymology
editUnknown origin, only in West Germanic, as it were from Proto-Germanic *þawwaz.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editthau m
Declension
editDeclension of thau (masculine a-stem)
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | thau | thauos |
accusative | thau | thauos |
genitive | thaues | thauō |
dative | thaue | thauum |
instrumental | — | — |
Thao
editEtymology
editFrom 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
editNoun
editthau
- person, human being; in particular, a Thao person
- pupil, apple of the eye
Vietnamese
editEtymology
editNon-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 鍮 (SV: thâu).
Pronunciation
editNoun
edit(classifier cái (“basin”)) thau • (𨭡)
- brass
- (Central Vietnam, Southern Vietnam) a portable, perfectly circular wash basin; compare bồn (“wall-affixed basin; counter-affixed sink”)
Derived terms
editCategories:
- Eastern Cham terms inherited from Proto-Chamic
- Eastern Cham terms derived from Proto-Chamic
- Eastern Cham terms inherited from Proto-Malayo-Chamic
- Eastern Cham terms derived from Proto-Malayo-Chamic
- Eastern Cham terms inherited from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan
- Eastern Cham terms derived from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan
- Eastern Cham terms inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian
- Eastern Cham terms derived from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian
- Eastern Cham terms inherited from Proto-Austronesian
- Eastern Cham terms derived from Proto-Austronesian
- Eastern Cham terms with IPA pronunciation
- Eastern Cham lemmas
- Eastern Cham verbs
- cjm:Thinking
- Latin lemmas
- Latin nouns
- Latin indeclinable nouns
- Latin neuter indeclinable nouns
- Latin neuter nouns
- Old Saxon terms with unknown etymologies
- Old Saxon terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Old Saxon terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Old Saxon terms with IPA pronunciation
- Old Saxon lemmas
- Old Saxon nouns
- Old Saxon masculine nouns
- Old Saxon a-stem nouns
- Thao terms inherited from Proto-Austronesian
- Thao terms derived from Proto-Austronesian
- Thao terms with IPA pronunciation
- Thao lemmas
- Thao nouns
- Vietnamese terms derived from Chinese
- Vietnamese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Vietnamese nouns classified by cái
- Vietnamese lemmas
- Vietnamese nouns
- Central Vietnamese
- Southern Vietnamese