# teu
## Catalan
### Alternative forms

* tou (Alghero)

### Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan teu (feminine tua), from Latin tuum, from Proto-Italic *towos. The original stem was modified by analogy with meu.
The weak form ton is also from Latin tuum in an unstressed (monosyllabic) position.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈtew]

### Pronoun

teu (feminine teva or teua, masculine plural teus, feminine plural teves or teues)
* your, yours (singular)

#### Usage notes

* When preceding a noun, teu is always preceded by the appropriate definite article.

#### Declension

$^1$ Behaves grammatically as plural.   $^2$ Behaves grammatically as third person. $^3$ Only as object of a preposition.   $^4$ Not before unstressed (h)i-, (h)u-.

#### Derived terms

* el teu

#### See also

* ton

## Drehu
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /t̪eu/

### Noun

teu
* moon

### References

* Tyron, D.T., Hackman, B. (1983) Solomon Islands languages: An internal classification. Cited in: "Dehu" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.
* Leenhardt, M. (1946) Langues et dialectes de l'Austro-Mèlanèsie. Cited in: "ⁿDe’u" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.

## Galician
### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese teu, from Latin tuus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtew/

### Pronoun

teu m (masculine singular teu, masculine plural teus, feminine singular túa, feminine plural túas)
* (possessive) yours (singular you)

### See also

* Appendix:Galician pronouns

### Further reading

* “teu”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

## Istro-Romanian
### Etymology

From Latin tuus, probably through an intermediate Vulgar Latin *tous or *teus. Compare to Catalan el teu and Daco-Romanian tău.

### Adjective

teu m (feminine te, masculine plural teľ, feminine plural tele)
* your
    nomelu teu
       your name

## Japanese
### Romanization

teu
* Rōmaji transcription of てう

## Ligurian
### Etymology

From Latin tuus, from Proto-Italic *towos.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tøː/

### Adjective

teu (invariable)
* your (singular)

### Pronoun

teu (invariable)
* (possessive) yours (singular)

#### Synonyms

* tò

### See also

* mæ
* seu, sò
* nòstro
* vòstro

## Nias
### Noun

teu (mutated form deu)
* rain

### References

* Sundermann, Heinrich. 1905. Niassisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Moers: Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen, p. 208.

## Palauan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tɛu/

### Noun

teu
* width

#### See also

* meteu (“(of multiple objects) to be wide”)

### References

* teu in Palauan Language Online: Palauan-English Dictionary, at tekinged.com.
* teu in Palauan-English Dictionary, at trussel2.com.
* teu in Lewis S. Josephs, Edwin G. McManus, Masa-aki Emesiochel (1977) Palauan-English Dictionary, University Press of Hawaii, →ISBN, page 326.

## Portuguese
### Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese tou, from Latin tuus, from Proto-Italic *towos.

#### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /tew/ [teʊ̯]
* (Portugal) IPA: /tew/
* (São Miguel, Azores) IPA: [te]
* Hyphenation: teu

#### Pronoun

teu (feminine tua)
* Second-person singular possessive pronoun.
** your; yours

##### See also
### Etymology 2

From meu (“hey, dude”), in analogy with the eu/meu and tu/teu pronominal pairs.

#### Interjection

teu!
* (Rio Grande do Sul, slang) hey; oi (used vocatively to draw someone’s attention)
* (Rio Grande do Sul, slang) dude, mate

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French té.

### Noun

teu n (plural teuri)
* T-square

#### Declension
## Tarairiú
### Noun

teu
* water

### Further reading

* Juvandi de Souza Santos, Cariri e Tarairiú?: culturas tapuais nos sertões da Paraíba (2009)

## Zou
### Verb

teu
* dig

#### References

* http://www.languageinindia.com/feb2013/zouphonologyfinal.pdf