तु

From Sanskrit त्वम् (tvam). Cognates include Hindi तू (tū) and Nepali तँ (tã).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʊ/

तु (tu)

1. thou, you (singular)

• Anoop Chandra Chandola (1966) A Synthatic Sketch of Garhwali, University of Chicago press (PhD thesis), page 86

• तू (tū) — metrical variant

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /tú/
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /t̪u/

तु • (tú)

1. pray, I beg, do
2. but
   • c. 1200 BCE – 1000 BCE, Atharvaveda 4.18.6
3. and
   • c. 200 BCE – 200 CE, Manusmṛti 2.22
   • (Can we date this quote?), The Buddha, Dhammapada(pāḷi) (subsequently translated from Pali to Sanskrit), Appamādavaɡɡa, page 32; republished in The Eighteenth Book in the Suttanta-Pitaka: Khuddaka-Nikāya‎, Colombo, 2009:

     8. ප්‍රමාදමප්‍රමාදෙන යදා නුදති පණ‍්ඩිතඃ
     ප්‍රඥාප්‍රසාදමාරුහ්‍ය ත්‍වශොකඃ ශොකිනීං ප්‍රජාම්
     පර්‍වතස‍්ථ ඉව භූමිෂ‍්ඨාන් ධීරො බාලානවෙක්‍ෂතෙ

     8 Pramādamapramādena yadā nudati paṇḍitaḥ
     Prajñāprasādamāruhya tvaśokaḥ śokinīṃ prajām
     Parvatastha iva bhūmiṣṭhān dhīro bālānavekṣate

     8. When the astute dispel negligence by means of diligence,
     having ascended the palace of wisdom, the sorrow-free then behold this generation of sorrow,
     as a wise man on a mountain-top beholds the fools below.

     (Wiktionary translation adapted from translation of the Pali by Ajahn Sujato.)

4. or

• Monier Williams (1899), “तु”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 449.