thau

From Proto-Chamic *thɔw, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taqu, from Proto-Austronesian *Caqu.

• IPA^(key): /tʰaʊ/

thau (Akhar Thrah spelling ꨔꨮꨭ)

1. to know
2. to understand

• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*Caqu”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

thau n (indeclinable)

1. tav, taw (letter)

• "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)

Unknown origin, only in West Germanic, as it were from Proto-Germanic *þawwaz.

• IPA^(key): [ˈθɑ.u]
• (late Old Saxon) IPA^(key): [ˈðɑ.u]

thau m

1. habit, custom

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 (tóng, “child”), 瞳 (tóng, “pupil”), and Vietnamese người (“person”), ngươi (“pupil”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈθau/

thau

1. person, human being; in particular, a Thao person
2. pupil, apple of the eye

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 鍮 (SV: thâu).

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [tʰaw˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [tʰaw˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [tʰa(ː)w˧˧]

(classifier cái (“basin”)) thau • (𨭡)

1. brass
2. (Central Vietnam, Southern Vietnam) a portable, perfectly circular wash basin; compare bồn (“wall-affixed basin; counter-affixed sink”)

• đồng thau