# thu
## English
### Pronoun

thu
* (Scotland) Variant of thou.

## Aghu Tharrnggala
### Noun

thu
* liver

### Further reading

* Barry Alpher, Connecting Thaypanic, in Land and Language in Cape York Peninsula and the Gulf Country, edited by Jean-Christophe Verstraete, Diane Hafner

## German
### Verb

thu
* singular imperative of thun

## Kuku-Thaypan
### Noun

thu
* liver

### Further reading

* Barry Alpher, Connecting Thaypanic, in Land and Language in Cape York Peninsula and the Gulf Country, edited by Jean-Christophe Verstraete, Diane Hafner

## Middle English
### Pronoun

thu
* Alternative form of þou (“thou”)

## Old Danish
### Etymology

From Old Norse þú, from Proto-Germanic *þū, from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.

### Pronoun

thu
* thou, you (singular)

#### Descendants

* Danish: du

## Old Dutch
### Alternative forms

* tu

### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *þū, from Proto-Germanic *þū.

### Pronoun

thū
* thou, you (singular)

#### Descendants

* Middle Dutch: du
** Dutch: (obsolete) du, dou, douw
** Limburgish: doe

#### Further reading

* “thū”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

## Old Frisian
### Alternative forms

* dū

### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *þū. Cognates include Old English þū and Old Saxon thū.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈθuː/

### Pronoun

thū (accusative thī, genitive thīn, dative thī)
* thou, you (singular)

#### Descendants

* North Frisian:
    Most dialects: dü
    Halligen: du
    Heligoland: di
* Saterland Frisian: du
* West Frisian: do, dû

#### References

* Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 214

## Old High German
### Pronoun

thū
* Alternative form of du

#### Inflection

This pronoun needs an inflection-table template.

## Old Saxon
### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *þū, from Proto-Germanic *þū.

### Pronoun

thū
* thou, you (singular)

#### Descendants

* Low German: du

## Old Swedish
### Pronoun

thu
* Alternative form of þū

## Scottish Gaelic
### Etymology

From Old Irish tú. Cognates include Irish tú and Manx oo.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /u/, (accented) /uː/

### Pronoun

thu (emphatic thusa, unlenited tu)
* second-person singular informal pronoun; thou, you
    Ciamar a tha thu, a Dhànaidh? ― How are you, Danny?

#### Usage notes

* thu is used to address one person in a familiar or informal situation. It is used between friends, and to people who are younger or of inferior social rank to the speaker.
* Children are always addressed using thu.
* It is considered distinctly impolite to address parents, grandparents, teachers, clergymen, etc. with thu, in these situations sibh is required.

#### Inflection

* tu (used after verb forms ending in -n, -s or -dh)

#### See also

$^1$ Used when following a verb ending in -n, -s or -dh. $^2$ sibh and sibhse also act as the polite singular pronouns. To mark a direct object of a verbal noun, the derivatives of gam are used.

### References

* ↑ Oftedal, M. (1956) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. III: The Gaelic of Leurbost, Isle of Lewis, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
* ↑ John MacPherson (1945) The Gaelic dialect of North Uist (Thesis)‎, Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh
* ↑ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1937) The dialect of Barra in the Outer Hebrides, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
* ↑ Roy Wentworth (2003) Gaelic Words and Phrases From Wester Ross / Faclan is Abairtean à Ros an Iar, Inverness: CLÀR, →ISBN
* ↑ Mac Gill-Fhinnein, Gordon (1966) Gàidhlig Uidhist a Deas, Dublin: Institiúid Ard-Léinn Bhaile Átha Cliath

### Further reading

* Edward Dwelly (1911) “thu”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
* Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “tú”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

## Vietnamese
### Pronunciation

* (Hà Nội) IPA: [tʰu˧˧]
* (Huế) IPA: [tʰʊw˧˧]
* (Saigon) IPA: [tʰʊw˧˧]
* Audio (Hà Nội):(file)

### Etymology 1

Sino-Vietnamese word from 秋.

#### Noun

thu
* autumn; fall
    Synonym: mùa thu
    thiên/ngàn/nghìn thua thousand autumns; eternity

##### Derived terms

* bánh trung thu
* lập thu (立秋)
* ngàn thu
* thiên thu (千秋)
* thu ba (秋波)
* thu phân (秋分)
* thu phong (秋風)
* thu thuỷ (秋水)
* Trung thu (中秋)
* Xuân Thu (春秋)

##### See also

Seasons in Vietnamese · bốn mùa (“four seasons”) (layout · text) · category :
| xuân (“spring”) | hè, hạ (“summer”) | thu (“fall; autumn”) | đông (“winter”) |

### Etymology 2

Sino-Vietnamese word from 收.

#### Verb

thu
* to get (something) back; to retrieve
* Short for thu âm (“to record”).
    Synonym: thâu

##### Derived terms

* doanh thu
* thu âm
* thu dọn
* thu hái
* thu hẹp
* thu hoạch
* thu hồi
* thu hút
* thu lượm
* thu nạp
* thu nhập
* thu nộp
* thu phục
* tịch thu
* trưng thu

## Welsh
### Pronunciation

* (North Wales) IPA: /θɨː/
* (South Wales) IPA: /θiː/
* Homophone: thŷ; (South Wales) thi

### Noun

thu
* Aspirate mutation of tu.

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.