thau

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

• IPA^(key): /tʰaʊ/

thau (Akhar Thrah spelling ꨔꨮꨭ)

1. to know
2. to understand

• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*Caqu”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

thau n (indeclinable)

1. tav, taw (letter)

• "thau", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *thaaw (“fat”).

thau

1. fat, chubby

thau

1. fat
2. grease

• Lorrain, J. Herbert (1940), “thau”, in Dictionary of the Lushai language, Calcutta: Asiatic Society

Unknown origin, only in West Germanic, as it were from Proto-Germanic *þawwaz.

• IPA^(key): [ˈθɑ.u]
• (late Old Saxon) IPA^(key): [ˈðɑ.u]

thau m

1. habit, custom

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”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈθau/

thau

1. person, human being; in particular, a Thao person
2. pupil, apple of the eye

• “thau”, in 原住民族語言線上辭典 [Online Dictionary of Indigenous Languages]‎^[1] (in Mandarin), Taipei: 財團法人原住民族語言研究發展基金會 [Indigenous Languages Research and Development Foundation], 2014–2026

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

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [tʰaw˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [tʰaw˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [tʰa(ː)w˧˧]

(classifier cái, chiếc (“basin”)) thau • (𨭡)

1. brass
2. portable, circular wash basin, often made from metallic materials

• đồng thau

• thua

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *thaaw. Cognate with Mizo thàu.

• IPA^(key): [tʰʌ̀u̯]
• Hyphenation: thau

thàu

1. fat (body fat)
2. obesity, fatness

• IPA^(key): [tʰâːu̯]
• Hyphenation: thau

thȁu

1. oil

• IPA^(key): [tʰāːu̯]
• Hyphenation: thau

thâu (stem II thȁu)

1. (stative) to be fat; to be obese

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

• IPA^(key): [tʰʌ̀u̯]
• Hyphenation: thau

thàu

1. gun

• Philip Thangliènmâng (2010), Minimal dictionary and Self-tutor Functional Grammar in Zo-English-Hindi, New Delhi: Zoculsin, →ISBN, page 22; 44; 52; 157
• Lukram Himmat Singh (2013), A Descriptive Grammar of Zou (PhD thesis), Canchipur: Manipur University, page 96