# ту
## Alutor
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tu/

### Conjunction

ту (tu) (emphatic то)
* and, then
    То ынӈин намалгитан ыньаньньус аӈинмысъатылъын.Then (the parents) saw (their daughter) who was talking alone.

#### See also

* г'оро

### References

* Comrie, Bernard and Polinsky, Maria. (1993) Causatives and Transitivity
* ↑ Matrena Ivnako, pers.comm.10 March 2002

## Carpathian Rusyn
### Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *tu.

### Adverb

ту • (tu)
* there, here, in the said place
    Його найновше выданя можете видіти туJoho najnovše vŷdanja možete vydity tuHere you can find the latest editions of that journal

#### Related terms

* гев (hev)

## Chuvash
### Etymology 1

From late Middle Chuvash: *tu, from earlier Middle Chuvash: *tai̯, from Old Chuvash: *tåw, from Proto-Oghuric *taɣ, from Proto-Turkic *tāg.

#### Noun

ту • (tu) (plural тусем)
* mountain

### Etymology 2

From Volga Bulgar طن (tan). Unclear relation with Tatar туу (tuwu).

#### Verb

ту • (tu)
* to do

#### References

* ↑ Agyágasi, Klára (2019) Chuvash Historical Phonetics (Turcologica; 117), Wiesbaden: Harrssowitz, page 240

## Dungan
### Etymology

Cognate of Mandarin Chinese 頭／头 (tóu)

### Noun

ту • (tu)
* head

## Kazakh

Alternative scripts :
| Arabic | تۋ |
| Cyrillic | ту |
| Latin | tu |

### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [tʊw]

#### Adjective

ту • (tu)
* (livestock) barren

### Etymology 2
#### Interjection

ту • (tu)
* an expression of surprise or regret

### Etymology 3

Ultimately from Old Chinese 纛 (OC *duːɡs, *duːɡ, “banner made of animal tail or feather”).

#### Noun

ту • (tu)
* flag

##### Synonyms

* байрақ (bairaq)

##### Derived terms

* тушы (tuşy)

## Moksha
### Verb

ту • (tu)
* connegative of тумс (tums)

## Nivkh
### Etymology

Possibly related to Ainu ト (to, “lake”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tu/

### Noun

ту (tu)
* lake

## Old Church Slavonic
### Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *tu.

### Adverb

ту • (tu)
* there, in that place (general)
* here

## Ossetian
### Etymology

From Proto-Iranian [Term?], from Proto-Indo-Iranian [Term?], from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ptyēw- (“to spit, vomit”). Akin to Persian تف (tof, “spittle”), Sanskrit ष्ठीवति (ṣṭhīvati, “to spit”), Armenian թուք (tʻukʻ, “spit, spittle”), Serbo-Croatian pljuvati (“to spit”), Ancient Greek πτύω (ptúō, “to spit out”), Latin spuō (“to spit”), English spew.

### Noun

ту • (tu)
* spit, spittle
    ту кӕнын ― tu kænyn ― to spit

## Pannonian Rusyn
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Slovak tu, from Proto-Slavic *tu. Cognate with Carpathian Rusyn ту (tu) and Slovak tu.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈtu]
* Rhymes: -u
* Hyphenation: ту

### Adverb

ту (tu)
* here (at this place)
    Coordinate term: там (tam)
* here (at this time)

#### Related terms

* тутейши (tutejši)
* тутешнї (tutešnji)

### Further reading

* Medʹeši, H., Fejsa, M., Timko-Djitko, O. (2010) “ту”, in Ramač, Ju., editor, Руско-сербски словнїк [Rusyn-Serbian Dictionary] (in Pannonian Rusyn), Novi Sad: Faculty of Philosophy

## Russian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [tu]

### Etymology 1
#### Determiner

ту • (tu) f sg (demonstrative)
* feminine accusative singular of тот (tot)

#### Pronoun

ту • (tu) f sg (demonstrative)
* feminine accusative singular of тот (tot)

### Etymology 2
#### Interjection

ту • (tu)
* (onomatopoeia) the sound of a train horn
    Ту-ту! ― Tu-tu! ― Choo-choo!

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tu.

### Adverb

ту̑ (Latin spelling tȗ)
* there, here, in the said place
** 1788, Доситеј Обрадовић, Свиња и храст:Свиња долазаше често под један жировити храст, и ту се с жиром храњаше. Храст јој рече једном: „Колико се с мојим плодом питаш, а никада нећеш на ме да погледаш, ни да ми захвалиш!”A swine went often under an acorn oak, and there it munched acorn. The oak said at once to the swine: “As much as you feed yourself with my fruits, nonetheless you never look at me, nor thank me!”

#### Synonyms

* (Croatia) туј

#### Related terms

* о́вдје, та̏мо

## Solombala English
### Etymology

* PIE word
* *dwóh₁
Inherited from English two.
Ingvild Broch (1996) made a mistake in reading the original text, where ту (tu) was written in italics as ту, which is why he mistakenly perceived it as мы (my) [mɨ], which is supposedly from English me.

### Numeral

ту (tu)
* two (2)
** 1849 [1848], Vereščagin, Vasilij P., Очерки Архангельской губерніи [Sketches from Arkhangelsk Governorate]‎, Saint Petersburg: Typography of Yakov Trey, pages 406–407:Асей, асей! Дай ту копѣйки!Asej, asej! Daj tu kopějki!Sailor, sailor! Give me two kopeks!

### References

* Broch, Ingvild (1996) “Solombala-English in Archangel”, in Jahr, Ernst Håkon, Broch, Ingvild, editors, Language Contact in the Arctic: Northern Pidgins and Contact Languages (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs (TiLSM); 88)‎, reprint edition, Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, published 2011, →DOI, →ISBN, page 95 of 93–98

## Southern Altai
### Etymology 1

From Proto-Turkic *ti- (“that”). Cognate to Kyrgyz тиги (tigi), etc.

#### Pronoun

ту • (tu)
* that

##### Synonyms

* тиги (tigi)

#### References

N. A. Baskakov, Toščakova N.A, editor (1947), “ту”, in Ojrotsko-Russkij Slovarʹ [Oyrot-Russian Dictionary], Moscow: M.: OGIZ, →ISBN

### Etymology 2

Compare to Kyrgyz туу (tuu).

#### Noun

ту • (tu)
* flag

##### Declension
#### References

“ту”, in Grammatika Altajskovo Jazyka [Altaic language Grammar], Kazan: V universtiteskoj til, 1869, →ISBN

## Tajik
### Etymology

Inherited from Classical Persian تُو (tū).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tu/, [t̪ʰu]

### Pronoun

ту • (tu) (Persian spelling تو)
* you, thou (informal, grammatically singular)
* your

### See also

* шумо (šumo) (informal, grammatically plural)
* Шумо (Šumo) (formal, polite and grammatically plural)

## Tundra Nenets
### Etymology

From Proto-Samoyedic *tuj, from Proto-Uralic *tule. Cognates include Finnish tuli and Northern Sami dolla.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [tu]
* Hyphenation: ту

### Noun

ту • (tu)
* fire
* light

#### Derived terms

* туни (tunyi)

### References

* Pyrerka, A. P., Tereščenko, N. M. (1948) Русско-ненецкий словарь [Russian–Nenets Dictionary], Moscow: Огиз, page 163
* N. M. Tereschenko (2005) “ту”, in Словарь ненецко-русский и русско-ненецкий, 3rd edition, Saint Petersburg: Просвещение, →ISBN
* Irina Nikolaeva (2014) A Grammar of Tundra Nenets, Walter de Gruyter GmbH, →ISBN, page 63

## Ukrainian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [tu]

### Determiner

ту • (tu)
* accusative feminine singular of той (toj)

## Yagnobi
### Pronoun

ту (tu)
* (informal, grammatically singular) you, thou