thau
See also: tháu, thău, thâu, thấu, thầu, and þau
Eastern Cham
Alternative forms
- ꨔꨮꨭ
Etymology
From Proto-Chamic *thɔw, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taqu, from Proto-Austronesian *Caqu.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tʰaʊ/
Verb
thau
- to know
- to understand
Latin
Noun
thau n (indeclinable)
- tav, taw (letter)
References
- thau in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
Thao
Etymology
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 (“child”), 瞳 (“pupil”), and Vietnamese người (“person”), ngươi (“pupil”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈθau/
Noun
thau
- person, human being; in particular, a Thao person
- pupil, apple of the eye
Vietnamese
Etymology
Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 鍮 (SV: thâu).
Pronunciation
- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [tʰaw˧˧]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [tʰaw˧˧]
- (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [tʰa(ː)w˧˧]
Noun
(classifier cái (“basin”)) thau • (𨭡)
- brass
- (Central Vietnam, Southern Vietnam) a portable, perfectly circular wash basin; compare bồn (“wall-affixed basin; counter-affixed sink”)
Derived terms
- đồng thau