Alemannic German eedit

Pronunciation eedit

  • /du/

Pronoun eedit

Du

  1. thoo, ye

Declension eedit


Amanab eedit

Noun eedit

Du

  1. a kynd o bird

Breton eedit

Etymology eedit

Frae Proto-Brythonic *duβ, frae Proto-Celtic *dubus, frae Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ-.

Pronunciation eedit

  • /ˈdyː/

Adjective eedit

Du

  1. black
  2. swalt
  3. stairved

Noun eedit

Du m

  1. black

Mutation eedit


Cornish eedit

Etymology eedit

Frae Proto-Brythonic *duβ, frae Proto-Celtic *dubus, frae Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ-.

Pronunciation eedit

  • (Revived Middle Cornish) [dyː]
  • (Revived Late Cornish) [diˑʊ]

Adjective eedit

Du

  1. black

Mutation eedit


Dens eedit

Etymology 1 eedit

Frae Old Danish thu, frae Auld Norse þú, frae Proto-Germanic *þū, frae Proto-Indo-European *túh₂ (you).

Pronunciation eedit

  • /du/

Pronoon eedit

Du (objective dig)

  1. (personal) thoo, ye (2nt person seengular subject pronoon, informal)
See an aa eedit

Etymology 2 eedit

Frae Old Danish dughæ, frae Auld Norse duga.

Pronunciation eedit

  • /duː/

Verb eedit

Du (imperative du, present dur or duer, past duede, past participle duet)

  1. be guid
  2. be fit

Dena'ina eedit

Particle eedit

Du

  1. interrogative paurticle (placed at the end o the sentence tae mak a quaisten)

Dutch eedit

Etymology eedit

Frae Middle Dutch du, frae Old Dutch thū, frae Proto-Germanic *þū, frae Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.

Pronoun eedit

Du

  1. (obsolete or dialectal) Seicont-person seengular, subjective; thoo.

Elfdalian eedit

Etymology eedit

Frae Auld Norse þú, frae Proto-Germanic *þū, frae Proto-Indo-European *túh₂. Cognate wi Swadish du.

Pronoun eedit

Du

  1. ye (seengular), thoo

Esperanto eedit

Esperanto cardinal numbers
 <  1 2 3  > 
    Cardinal : Du
    Ordinal : dua
    Adverbial : due
    Multiplier : duobla
    Fractional : duona

Etymology eedit

Frae Laitin duo, frae Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁.

Pronunciation eedit

Numeral eedit

Du

  1. (cardinal) twa (2)



Derived terms eedit


French eedit

Etymology eedit

Frae Auld French del.

Pronunciation eedit

  1. REDIRECT Template:Wt/sco/homophones

Contraction eedit

Du

  1. Contraction o de + le (o the)
  2. Contraction o de + le;
  3. REDIRECT Template:Wt/sco/non-gloss definition

Uisage notes eedit

  • The partitive airticle signifies "some", but it eften is nae translatit in Inglis, Dutch, or German.

Gaikundi eedit

Noun eedit

Du

  1. man

Forder readin eedit


German eedit

Alternative forms eedit

Etymology eedit

Frae Old High German du (akin tae Old Saxon thu an Inglis thou), itsel frae Proto-Germanic *þū, frae Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.

Pronunciation eedit

  • (standard, generally) /duː/
  • (colloquially in unstressed position) /də/
  • In colloquial speech in Germany, the /d/ can assimilate tae a precedin coronal whan the wird is unstressed. This ayeweys happens efter the seicont person seengular verb endin, except in purposefully enunciatit speech.

Pronoun eedit

Du

  1. thoo, ye (seengular familiar)

Uissage notes eedit

  • Du is the informal seicont person pronoon. In polite leid, the third person plural Sie (ayeweys caipitalised) is uised.
  • As a semplifee'd rule ane can say that du is uised amang friends, relatives, an young fowk up tae 25~30 years. Du is ayeweys uised tae address childer up tae 14~16 years, as weel as gods, ainimals, an ither craiturs.
  • Uissage an aa depends a lot on the settin in which fowk meet: twa unacquaintit, middle-aged persons are quite likely tae uise du whan thay meet, for example, in a pub, but much less sae whan thay meet in the street.
  • Uissage varies in different pairts o the German-speakin warld. For example, strangers mey cry ilk ither du mair readily in Berlin nor in Munich.

Inflection eedit

1Eften caipitalised, especially in letters

Derived terms eedit

Further reading eedit

  • Du in Duden online

Gothic eedit

Romanization eedit

Du

  1. Romanization o 𐌳𐌿

Hunsrik eedit

Etymology eedit

Frae Old High German du (akin tae Old Saxon thu an Inglis thou), itsel frae Proto-Germanic *þū, frae Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.

Pronunciation eedit

  • /tuː/

Pronoun eedit

Du

  1. thoo, ye
    Du bist aarich scheen.
    Ye are sae beautifu.

Inflection eedit

Forder readin eedit


Ido eedit

Ido cardinal numbers
 <  1 2 3  > 
    Cardinal : Du
    Ordinal : duesma
    Adverbial : dufoye
    Multiplier : duopla
    Fractional : duima
Ido Wikipedia article on Du

Etymology eedit

Frae Esperanto du, frae French deux, Spainish dos, Italian due, ultimately frae Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁.

Numeral eedit

Du

  1. (cardinal) twa (2)

Interlingue eedit

Numeral eedit

Du

  1. twa

Kurdish eedit

Etymology eedit

Frae Proto-Iranian *duu̯a (compare Persie دو (do), Pashto دوه (dwa), Avestan 𐬛𐬎𐬎𐬀 (duua)), frae Proto-Indo-Iranian (compare Sanskrit द्व (dvá), Marathi दोन (don), Hindi दो (do)/Urdu دو (do), Punjabi ਦੋ ()), frae Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ (compare Russian два (dva), Lithuanian du, Greek δύο (dýo), Spainish dos, Inglis two, Scots twa).

Numeral eedit

Du

  1. (cardinal) twa (2)

Ligurian eedit

Pronunciation eedit

  • /du/

Contraction eedit

Du

  1. contraction o de + u (o the).
  2. contraction o de + u, forms the pairtitive airticle.

Uissage notes eedit

  • The pairtitive airticle signifies "some", but it eften is nae translatit in Inglis, Scots, Dutch, or German.

Lithuanie eedit

Etymology eedit

Frae Proto-Baltic *duwō, frae Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁. Compare Latvian divi. Cognate tae Laitin duo.

Numeral eedit

Du m (feminine dvi)

  1. (cardinal) twa (2)

Declension eedit


Lojban eedit

Etymology eedit

Derived frae dunli.

Pronunciation eedit

  • /ˈdu/

Cmavo eedit

Du (rafsi dub or du'o)

  1. (identity selbri) x1 equals x2, x3, x4, ...
    li pa su'i vo du li mu
    one plus four equals five

See also eedit


Lawer Sorbian eedit

Etymology eedit

Frae Proto-Slavic *jьdǫ (first-person seengular) an *jьdǫtь (third-person plural), inflectit forms o *jьti.

Pronunciation eedit

  • /du/

Verb eedit

Du

  1. REDIRECTTemplate:Wt/sco/inflection of
  2. REDIRECTTemplate:Wt/sco/inflection of

Synonyms eedit

  • (first-person seengular): źom

Luxembourgish eedit

Etymology eedit

Frae Proto-Germanic *þū.

Pronunciation eedit

  • /duː/

Pronoun eedit

Du

  1. seicont-person seengular, informal, nominative: ye, thoo
    Wéi al bass du?Hou auld are ye?

Declension eedit


Mandarin eedit

Romanization eedit

Du

  1. Nonstaundart spellin o .
  2. Nonstaundart spellin o .
  3. Nonstaundart spellin o .
  4. Nonstaundart spellin o .

Uissage notes eedit

  1. REDIRECT Template:Wt/sco/U:cmn:toneless

Middle Dutch eedit

Etymology eedit

Frae Old Dutch thū, frae Proto-Germanic *þū.

Pronunciation eedit

  • /dyː/
  • (Limburg) /duː/

Pronoun eedit

Du

  1. thoo, ye (seengular, informal)
  2. REDIRECT Template:Wt/sco/synonyms

Uissage notes eedit

This pronoon begoud tae be replaced bi gi in formal address during the Middle Dutch period, an eventually fell oot o uise awthegither.

Inflection eedit

Descendants eedit

  • Limburgish: doe

Further reading eedit

  • Du”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
  • Du”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

Middle Low German eedit

Pronunciation eedit

  • /duː/

Etymology eedit

Frae Old Saxon thū, frae Proto-Germanic *þū.

Pronoun eedit

  1. thoo, ye (seicont person seengular nominative)

Declension eedit


Descendants eedit


Norman eedit

Etymology eedit

Frae Laitin dux, ducem.

Noun eedit

Du m

  1. duke

Related terms eedit


North Frisian eedit

Etymology eedit

Frae Proto-Germanic *dōną. Cognates include Mooring North Frisian düünj an Wast Frisian dwaan.

Verb eedit

Du

  1. (Föhr-Amrum) tae dae
  2. (Föhr-Amrum) tae gie

Conjugation eedit



Northren Sami eedit

Pronoun eedit

Du

  1. REDIRECTTemplate:Wt/sco/inflection of

Norse Bokmål eedit

Etymology eedit

Frae Auld Norse þú, frae Proto-Germanic *þū, frae Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.

Pronunciation eedit

  • /dʉː/

Pronoun eedit

Du (objective case deg)

  1. thou, you (second person, singular)

References eedit

See also eedit


Norse Nynorsk eedit

Etymology eedit

Frae Auld Norse þú, frae Proto-Germanic *þū, frae Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.

Pronunciation eedit

Pronoon eedit

Du (objective case deg)

  1. thoo, ye (seicont person, seengular)

References eedit

See also eedit


Novial eedit

Novial cardinal numbers
 <  1 2 3  > 
    Cardinal : Du
    Ordinal : duesmi

Numeral eedit

Du

  1. (cardinal) twa



Auld French eedit

Alternative forms eedit

Contraction eedit

Du

  1. contraction o de + le (o the)

Auld Heich German eedit

 
ane drawing o the inscription on the Bülach fibula

Etymology eedit

Frae Proto-Germanic *þū, whance an aa Old English þu, Auld Norse þú, an ultimately frae Proto-Indo-European *túh₂. Perhaps the earliest attestation o the pronoon is the inscription on the Bülach fibula, which mey shaw ᛞᚢ (du) awready differentiatit frae ither Germanic leids’ þu.

Pronunciation eedit

  • /du/

Pronoun eedit

Du

  1. thoo, ye (seicont-person seengular pronoon)
    • 3rd-6t century, inscription on the Bülach fibula:
      ᚠᚱᛁᚠᚱᛁᛞᛁᛚ / ᛞᚢ / ...
      frifridil / du / []
      Frifridil, you / []

Descendants eedit

  • German: du

See an aa eedit

  • fridil (a pet name for a male luver)

References eedit

  • Heinz Klingenberg, Runenfibel von Bülach, Kanton Zürich. Liebesinschrift aus alemannischer Frühzeit, in the Alemannisches Jahrbuch (1973/75), page 308
  • Heinz Klingenberg, Die Runeninschrift aus Bülach, in Helvetia archaeologica, vollum 7 (1976), pages 116–121
  • Stephan Opitz, Südgermanische Runeninschriften im älteren Futhark aus der Merowingerzeit (Freiburg im Breisgau, 1977)

Romanian eedit

Pronunciation eedit

  • [du]

Verb eedit

Du

  1. seicont-person seengular imperative form o duce.
    Du-te acasă.
    Gae hame.

Swedish eedit

Alternative forms eedit

  1. REDIRECTTemplate:Wt/sco/rel-top
  1. REDIRECTTemplate:Wt/sco/rel-bottom

Etymology eedit

Frae Old Swedish þū, frae Auld Norse þú, frae Proto-Germanic *þū, frae Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.

Pronunciation eedit

Pronoun eedit

Du

  1. (personal) ye (familiar sg.).
  2. (personal) thoo.

Declension eedit


Venetian eedit

Etymology eedit

Compare Italian due

Numeral eedit

Du m

  1. twa

Synonyms eedit


Vietnamese eedit

Etymology eedit

Sino-Vietnamese, frae

/

Pronunciation eedit

  1. REDIRECT Template:Wt/sco/vi-IPA

Verb eedit

Du

  1. walk

Derived terms eedit


Welsh eedit

Etymology eedit

Frae Proto-Brythonic *duβ, frae Proto-Celtic *dubus, frae Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ-.

Pronunciation eedit

Adjective eedit

Du (feminine seengular Du, plural duon, equative Dued, comparative Duach, superlative Duaf)

  1. black
    Mae ganddo fo fwstash du.
    He haes a black mustache

See also eedit

Colours in Welsh · lliwiau (layout · text)
     coch      gwyrdd      melyn      melynwyn      gwyn
     rhudd      majenta      glaswyrdd      gwyrdd leim      pinc
     indigo      glas      oren, melyngoch      llwyd      fioled
     du      porffor      brown      asur, gwynlas      gwyrddlas

Mutation eedit

Welsh mutation
radical saft nasal aspirate
Du Ddu Nu unchynged
Note: Some o thir forms mey be hypothetical. Nae ivery
possible mutatit form o ivery wird actually occurs.