tuo - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (2024)

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tuqu, compare Old Javanese tuhu.

tuo

1. right (right-hand)

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tuqu. Doublet of totoo.

• Hyphenation: tu‧o
• IPA^(key): /tuˈʔo/ [tuˈʔo]

tuo

1. right (direction, side)

   Antonym: wala

• too — obsolete

• Hyphenation: tu‧o
• IPA^(key): /ˈtuʔo/ [ˈt̪u.ʔo]

tûo

1. to believe

   Tuhoan/tuohan ba gyud anang politiko?

   Should you believe that politician?

2. to heed

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• matuohon (“having faith in something”)
• matuotuohon (“superstitious”)
• Mituo Ako (“Apostle's Creed”)
• pagtuo (“belief”)
• patuotuo (“to deceive someone by pretense”)
• tinuhoan (“religious belief”)
• tuluhoan (“article of faith”)
• tuotuo (“superstition”)

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tuqu.

• Hyphenation: tu‧o
• IPA^(key): /tuˈʔo/ [t̪ʊˈʔo]
• IPA^(key): /ˈtuʔo/ [ˈt̪u.ʔo]

tuó or tûo

1. right (direction)

   Coordinate term: wala

• tuohon
• tuong kamot
• walag tuo

• Fr. Juan Felis de la Encarnación (1851) Diccionario bisaya-español‎^[2] (overall work in Cebuano and Spanish), Amigos del País, page 612
• John U. Wolff (1972) A dictionary of Cebuano Visayan‎^[3] (overall work in Cebuano and English), Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press

From Proto-Finnic *too, from Proto-Uralic *to. Cognates include Erzya тона (tona), Hungarian tova.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtuo̯/, [ˈt̪uo̞̯]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -uo
• Syllabification^(key): tuo

tuo

1. (demonstrative) that (over there) (when the speaker points at the thing or person, either physically or mentally; compare se, see usage notes)

   Tuo on saari.

   That is an island.

   Tuo haluaa syödä jäätelöä.

   That person wants to eat ice cream.

   Tuo oli ikävästi sanottu.

   That was a nasty thing to say.

   Onko tuossa mitä juuri sanoit mitään perää?

   Does [that] what you just said make any sense?

   Eiköhän tuo jo riitä.

   That ought to be enough.

tuo

1. that (pointed at by the speaker; compare se, see usage notes)

   Näetkö tuon talon?

   Can you see that house?

   Mistä tuo valo tulee?

   Where is that light coming from?

   Voi tuota raukkaa.

   Oh that poor thing.

   Ravintola on kadun tuolla puolen.

   The restaurant is on that side of the street.

   Saimaa, tuo Suomen järvistä suurin

   Saimaa, [that (lake which is)] the largest of all the lakes in Finland

• Both tuo and se can mean "that". The distinction between the two is complicated, but intrinsically understood by native speakers.
  • The main difference between the two is that tuo is used when the speaker is somehow indicating at the referent, such as when pointing at it with a finger, looking at it directly, or with other gestures. Otherwise, se is used, especially if it is the addressee who is indicating at something.
  • Another description is that tuo implies a closer mental connection to or focus at the speaker, while se implies a closer mental connection to or focus at the addressee.
  • When se is used to introduce the addressee to something new or to refer to a physical entity, it tends to be close or near to them in some way (not necessarily physically). That is to say, se tends to be used as a medial demonstrative and tuo as a distal demonstrative.
  • According to Etelämäki (2009), tuo and se are distinguished by the former expressing referential openness and the latter implying adequate knownness of the referent. In other words, se implies that all participants in the conversion are aware of the referent, while tuo does not, as the referent may still be in the process of identification during the utterance. According to the same article, tämä expresses indexical asymmetry and tuo indexical symmetry; that is to say, tämä implies that the referent is more easily accessible to the speaker than to the addressed, and tuo does not.^[1]
  • Some sources claim that se is anaphoric (referring to a previous expression), while tuo is deictic (referring to physical entities). However, se also has deictic uses, and tuo can be used anaphorically as well (but such uses are limited, generally only to provide emphasis).
  • When actively distinguishing between "this" and "that", tuo is more commonly used than se for the latter.

Declension type 19 (suo) is used, except that the singular and plural forms come from different sources, so the declension can be called irregular. The forms in brackets are never or very rarely used.

• toi (colloquial or dialectal)

compounds

• Kven: tuo

• “tuo”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[4] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01
• Tämä, tuo vai se?. Kielikello (4/2001). An article analyzing the usage and differences between the Finnish demonstrative pronouns tämä, tuo and se. (in Finnish)

• IPA^(key): /ˈtuo̯/, [ˈt̪uo̞̯] (third-person indicative)
• IPA^(key): /ˈtuo̯ˣ/, [ˈt̪uo̞̯(ʔ)] (imperative, indicative connegative)
• Rhymes: -uo
• Syllabification^(key): tuo

tuo

1. third-person singular present indicative of tuoda

   Hän tuo minulle kynän.

   S/he brings me a pen.

2. present active indicative connegative of tuoda

   Et tuo minulle kynää.

   You don't bring me a pen.

3. second-person singular present imperative of tuoda

   Tuo minulle kynä!

   Bring me a pen!

4. second-person singular present active imperative connegative of tuoda

   Älä tuo minulle kynää!

   Don't bring me a pen!

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tuqu.

tuo

1. to believe

From Latin tuus, from Proto-Italic *towos.

In the singular, Latin tuum underwent *ʊu > *ou > *ɔu dissimilation,^[1] cf. Sardinian tou, and also Latin ōvum > Italian òvo, Spanish huevo, ultimately producing [ˈtwɔu], and a plural [ˈtwɔi]. Italian then underwent its regular *wɔV > *uV sound change,^[2] cf. *bwɔe > bue, *mjɛu > mio, producing ultimately [ˈtu.o]. This latter sound change is blocked by a following [i], which explains the plural form tuoi, cf. *mjɛi > miei.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtu.o/, (unstressed) /tu.o/^[3]
• Rhymes: -uo
• Hyphenation: tù‧o, (unstressed) tu‧o

• Audio:

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tuo (feminine tua, masculine plural tuoi, feminine plural tue)

1. your (informal)

   i tuoi figli ― your children

   le tue macchine ― your cars

   casa tua ― your house

   tuo padre ― your father

tuo (feminine tua, masculine plural tuoi, feminine plural tue)

1. yours

   Sono i tuoi. ― They are yours.

• The use or non-use of the definite article in conjunction with the determiner and possessive pronoun is the same as for mio; see the usage note there.

• loro
• mio
• suo
• nostro
• vostro

• -uto

tuo

1. Nonstandard spelling of tuwa.

From Proto-Finnic *too. Cognates include Finnish tuo and Ingrian too.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtuo̯/
• Hyphenation: tuo

tuo

1. (North Karelian or dialectal) that

tuo

1. (North Karelian or dialectal) that

• P. Zaykov, L. Rugoyeva (1999) “tuo”, in Карельско-Русский словарь (Северно-Карельские диалекты) [Karelian-Russian dictionary (North Karelian dialects)], Petrozavodsk, →ISBN
• Pertti Virtaranta, Raija Koponen (2009) “tuo”, in Marja Torikka, editor, Karjalan kielen sanakirja‎^[5], Helsinki: Kotus, →ISSN

From Finnish tuo, from Proto-Finnic *too, from Proto-Uralic *to.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtuo̯/

tuo

1. that

tuo

1. that

• Eira Söderholm (2017) Kvensk grammatikk, Tromsø: Cappelen Damm Akademisk, →ISBN, page 278

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈtu.oː/, [ˈt̪uoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈtu.o/, [ˈt̪uːo]

tuō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of tuus

• tuo 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)

tuo

1. Nonstandard spelling of tuō.
2. Nonstandard spelling of tuó.
3. Nonstandard spelling of tuǒ.
4. Nonstandard spelling of tuò.

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

tuo

1. Alternative form of two

• tuu
• tou

From Latin tuus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtuo/

tuo (plural tuos, feminine tua, feminine plural tuas)

1. your, yours

• meu
• suu/sou/suo
• nostru
• bostru/vostru
• issoro

From ti- + Proto-Oceanic *onom, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ənəm, from Proto-Austronesian *ənəm.

• IPA^(key): /tuo/

tuo

1. three

• François, Alexandre. 2021. Teanu dictionary (Solomon Islands). Dictionaria 15. 1-1877. DOI:10.5281/zenodo.5653063. – entry tuo.
• François, Alexandre. 2021. Online Teanu–English dictionary, with equivalents in Lovono and Tanema. Electronic files. Paris: CNRS. – entry tuo.

• IPA^(key): [ˈtu.o]

tuo

1. (transitive) to pull out, to pull outside, to drag out

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh