| Thisetymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at theEtymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Not given etymology by STEDT (tu "like (as)"), while Luce givesOld Chinese對 (OC*tuːbs, “to correspond to”) andTibetanདོ་(do),དོད(dod,“equivalent”) as cognates, as well as grouping the word etymologically together withတု(tu.,“to imitate, vie with”).[1]” |
တူ• (tu)
FromProto-Tibeto-Burman*m-(t/d)u(“nephew, descendant”). Cognate withMizotu(“nephew”), as well asOld Chinese出 (OC*kʰljuds, *kʰljud) in the obscure sense of "nephew, descendant" as seen in theErya (STEDT).
တူ• (tu)
FromProto-Sino-Tibetan*s/m-t(w)a ~ *(t/d)u(“hammer, strike, slap”), provisionally set up by STEDT. Cognate withTibetanཐོ་བ(tho ba,“hammer”),Old Chinese鍛 (OC*toːns, “to forge, refine”),碓 (OC*tuːls, “pestle”).
တူ• (tu)
Borrowed fromHokkien箸(tū). CompareLüᦏᦴᧈ(ṫhuu¹),Laoຖູ່(thū).
တူ• (tu)
Borrowed fromPalitulā(“scales”). CompareKhmerតុលា(tolaa),Thaiตุลา(dtù-laa).
တူ• (tu)
| Zodiac signs in Burmese ·ရာသီရုပ်(rasirup)(layout ·text) | |||||||||||
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 မိဿ(mi.ssa.) |  ပြိဿ(pri.ssa.) |  မေထုန်(mehtun) |  ကရကဋ်(ka.ra.kat) | ||||||||
 သိဟ်(sih) |  ကန်(kan) |  တူ(tu) |  ဗြိစ္ဆာ(brichca) | ||||||||
 ဓနု(dha.nu.) |  မကရ(ma.ka.ra.) |  ကုံ(kum) |  မိန်(min) | ||||||||
တူ (tao)
တူ (transliteration needed)
တူ (transliteration needed)
(Verbs)
FromProto-Tai*tuːᴬ(“door”). Cognate withThaiตู(dtuu),Northern Thaiᨲᩪ (old) orᨸᨲᩪ (modern),Southern Thaiตู,Laoປະຕູ(pa tū),Lüᦎᦴ(ṫuu),Bouyeidul,Zhuangdou ordu.
တူ• (tǔu)
Cognate withThaiตู(dtuu),Northern Thaiᨲᩪ(tǔu),Laoຕູ(tū),Lüᦎᦴ(ṫuu).
တူ• (tǔu)
