တူ

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tù/
• Romanization: MLCTS: tu • ALA-LC: tū • BGN/PCGN: tu • Okell: tu

Etymology 1

Etymology 2

From Proto-Tibeto-Burman *m-(t/d)u (“nephew, descendant”). Cognate with Mizo tu (“nephew”), as well as Old Chinese 出 (OC *kʰljuds, *kʰljud) in the obscure sense of "nephew, descendant" as seen in the Erya (STEDT).

Etymology 3

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s/m-t(w)a ~ *(t/d)u (“hammer, strike, slap”), provisionally set up by STEDT. Cognate with Tibetan ཐོ་བ (tho ba, “hammer”), Old Chinese 鍛 (OC *toːns, “to forge, refine”), 碓 (OC *tuːls, “pestle”).

Etymology 4

Borrowed from Hokkien 箸 (tū). Compare Lü ᦏᦴᧈ (ṫhuu¹), Lao ຖູ່ (thū).

Etymology 5

Borrowed from Pali tulā (“scales”). Compare Khmer តុលា (tolaa), Thai ตุลา (dtù-laa).

See also

Zodiac signs in Burmese · ရာသီရုပ် (rasirup) (layout · text)
မိဿ (mi.ssa.)	ပြိဿ (pri.ssa.)	မေထုန် (mehtun)	ကရကဋ် (ka.ra.kat)
သိဟ် (sih)	ကန် (kan)	တူ (tu)	ဗြိစ္ဆာ (brichca)
ဓနု (dha.nu.)	မကရ (ma.ka.ra.)	ကုံ (kum)	မိန် (min)

References

Further reading

• “တူ” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.
• “တူ, 1; တူ, 2; တူ, 3; တူ, 4; တူ, 5” in The Judson Burmese–English Dictionary (Rangoon: American Baptist Mission Press 1921), page 487.

Pronunciation

• (Myanmar, Thailand) IPA^(key): /tao/^[1]

Etymology 1

Etymology 2

References

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tuː˨˦/
• Rhymes: -uː

Etymology 1

From Proto-Tai *tuːᴬ (“door”). Cognate with Thai ตู (dtuu), Northern Thai ᨲᩪ (old) or ᨸᨲᩪ (modern), Southern Thai ตู, Lao ປະຕູ (pa tū), Lü ᦎᦴ (ṫuu), Bouyei dul, Zhuang dou or du.

Etymology 2

Cognate with Thai ตู (dtuu), Northern Thai ᨲᩪ (tǔu), Lao ຕູ (tū), Lü ᦎᦴ (ṫuu).