thau

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

Eastern Cham

Alternative forms

• ꨔꨮꨭ

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʰaʊ/

Verb

thau

1. to know
2. to understand

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)

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

Declension of 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

Vietnamese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [tʰaw˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [tʰaw˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [tʰa(ː)w˧˧]

Noun

(classifier cái (“basin”)) thau • (𨭡)

1. brass
2. (Central Vietnam, Southern Vietnam) a portable, perfectly circular wash basin; compare bồn (“wall-affixed basin; counter-affixed sink”)

Derived terms

• đồng thau