tou

tou

1. heart

• Kateřina Naitoro, A Sketch Grammar of 'Are'are: The Sound System and Morpho-Syntax (2013)

From Dutch touw, from Middle Dutch touwe, from Old Dutch *tou, from Proto-Germanic *tawwą.

• IPA^(key): /tœu̯/

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tou (plural toue, diminutive toutjie)

1. (countable) A rope.
2. (uncountable) Rope.

From Latin tōtus. Compare Catalan tot, French tout, Italian tutto, Portuguese todo, Romanian tot.

tou m (feminine toa, neuter too, masculine plural toos, feminine plural toes)

1. all

From Old Catalan tou, from Latin tuum, from Proto-Italic *towos.

• teu (non-Algherese dialects)

• (Algherese) IPA^(key): /ˈtow/
• Rhymes: -ow

tou (feminine tua, masculine plural tous, feminine plural tues)

1. (Alghero) your, yours (singular)

• ton

From Latin tōfus (“tuff”).

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈtow/
• (also) IPA^(key): /ˈtɔw/

tou (feminine tova, masculine plural tous, feminine plural toves)

1. soft

   Antonym: dur

• estovar
• tovor

• “tou” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “tou”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “tou” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “tou” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From French trop (“too”).

tou

1. too, also

tou

1. Niʻihau form of kou (“your”)

   O wai tou inoa?

   What is your name?

From Proto-Hlai *tʰu: (“seven”), from Pre-Hlai *tu: (Norquest, 2015).

• (Standard Hlai, Baoding) IPA^(key): /tʰou˥˧/

tou

1. seven

tou

1. Rōmaji transcription of とう

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tou (feminine singular toda, masculine plural toos, feminine plural todas)

1. all

When followed by an article, tou is combined with the next word to give the following combined forms:

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tou

1. sugar cane

• Greg Pearson, René van den Berg, Lote Grammar Sketch (2008)

tou (tou⁵ / tou⁰, Zhuyin ˙ㄊㄡ)

1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 夳.
2. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 頬.

tou

1. Nonstandard spelling of tōu.
2. Nonstandard spelling of tóu.
3. Nonstandard spelling of tǒu.
4. Nonstandard spelling of tòu.

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

tou

1. Alternative form of þou (“thou”)

tou

1. above

   Antonym: yaŵa

• Sundermann, Heinrich. 1905. Niassisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Moers: Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen, p. 220.

From Old Frisian twā. Compare Föhr-Amrum North Frisian tau.

tou f or n (masculine tväär)

1. (Mooring) two

From Latin tuum.

tou (feminine tua, masculine plural tous, feminine plural tues)

1. your, yours (singular)

• ton

• Catalan: teu, tou

Shortening of estou, first-person singular present indicative of estar.

• Rhymes: -ow

tou

1. Eye dialect spelling of estou.

tou

1. second person plural; you (three or more)

• tuu
• tuo

From Latin tuus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtou/

tou (plural tuos, feminine tua, feminine plural tuas)

1. your, yours

• meu
• suu/sou/suo
• nostru
• bostru/vostru
• issoro

From Old Frisian to, from Proto-West Germanic [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *tō. Cognates include West Frisian ta and German zu.

• IPA^(key): /toːu̯/
• Hyphenation: tou
• Rhymes: -oːu̯

tou (neuter or distal adverb deertou, proximal adverb hiertou, interrogative adverb wiertou)

1. to
2. to, towards
3. for, on the occasion of

   Iek skoankte him Wien tou sin Bäidedai. ― I gave him wine as a present for his birthday.

tou (inflected toue, comparative touer, superlative toust)

1. closed, locked

• Marron C. Fort (2015), “tou”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN

From Old Frisian tou, towe, tau, tauwe, from Proto-Germanic *tawwą.

• IPA^(key): /tɔu̯/

tou n (plural touwen, diminutive touke)

1. rope

• “tou”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011