The word you in different languages

You in Different Languages: The second-person pronoun in Modern English is you. Grammatically, it is plural, and historically it has been used only in datives. When we say “you” are a good person, it means we are talking about the person who is present in front of us. Thus, you is used to referring to a person with whom we are speaking. In the English language, you’re a combination of the two words, you and are. An example of a contraction is this. You might think that translating the word “you” is simple for English speakers. But languages are strange. The English word “you” applies to everyone, regardless of who is speaking. However, other languages have more options when it comes to pronouns that are in the second person.

You in European Languages

Translation of word You in almost 42 European languages.

Different Languages Word You
Albanian ju
Basque zuk
Belarusian вы
Bosnian vi
Bulgarian Вие
Catalan vostè
Corsican
Croatian vas
Czech vy
Danish du
Dutch u
Estonian sa
Finnish sinä
French toi
Frisian jo
Galician vostede
German Sie
Greek εσείς [eseís]
Hungarian te
Icelandic Þú
Irish
Italian tu
Latvian tu
Lithuanian tu
Luxembourgish Dir
Macedonian ќе
Maltese inti
Norwegian du
Polish ty
Portuguese você
Romanian tu
Russian вы [vy]
Scots Gaelic thu
Serbian ти [ti]
Slovak vy
Slovenian vi
Spanish
Swedish du
Tatar син
Ukrainian ви [vy]
Welsh chi
Yiddish דו

Translation of word You in almost 36 Asian languages.

Different Languages Word You
Armenian դուք
Azerbaijani Sən
Bengali আপনি
Chinese Simplified 您 [nín]
Chinese Traditional 您 [nín]
Georgian თქვენ
Gujarati તમે
Hindi आप
Hmong koj
Japanese 君は
Kannada ನೀವು
Kazakh Сіз
Khmer អ្នក
Korean 당신 [dangsin]
Kyrgyz сен
Lao ທ່ານ
Malayalam നിങ്ങളെ
Marathi आपण
Mongolian Та
Myanmar (Burmese) သငျသညျ
Nepali तपाईं
Odia ତୁମେ
Pashto تاسو
Punjabi ਤੁਸੀਂ
Sindhi توهان
Sinhala ඔබ
Tajik шумо
Tamil நீங்கள்
Telugu మీరు
Thai คุณ
Turkish sen
Turkmen sen
Urdu تم
Uyghur سىز
Uzbek siz
Vietnamese bạn

You in Middle East Languages

Translation of word You in 4 middle eastern languages.

Different Languages Word You
Arabic أنت [‘ant]
Hebrew אתה
Kurdish (Kurmanji) hûn
Persian شما

You in African Languages

Translation of word You in almost 13 African languages.

Different Languages Word You
Afrikaans jy
Amharic አንተ
Chichewa inu
Hausa ka
Igbo
Kinyarwanda wowe
Sesotho o
Shona iwe
Somali aad
Swahili wewe
Xhosa wena
Yoruba ti o
Zulu wena

You in Austronesian Languages

Translation of word You in almost 10 Austronesian languages.

Different Languages Word You
Cebuano ikaw
Filipino ikaw
Hawaiian ʻo ʻoe
Indonesian kamu
Javanese sampeyan
Malagasy ianao
Malay anda
Maori koe
Samoan oe
Sundanese anjeun

You in Other Foreign Languages

Different Languages Word You
Esperanto vi
Haitian Creole ou
Latin vos

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Saying you in European Languages

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Saying you in Middle-Eastern Languages

Saying you in African Languages

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Saying You in European Languages

Language Ways to say you
Albanian ju Edit
Basque zuk Edit
Belarusian вы Edit
Bosnian vi Edit
Bulgarian Вие Edit
Catalan vostè Edit
Corsican Edit
Croatian vas Edit
Czech vy Edit
Danish du Edit
Dutch u Edit
Estonian sa Edit
Finnish sinä Edit
French toi Edit
Frisian jo Edit
Galician vostede Edit
German Sie Edit
Greek εσείς
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Hungarian te Edit
Icelandic Þú Edit
Irish Edit
Italian tu Edit
Latvian tu Edit
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Luxembourgish Dir Edit
Macedonian ќе Edit
Maltese inti Edit
Norwegian du Edit
Polish ty Edit
Portuguese você Edit
Romanian tu Edit
Russian вы
[vy]
Edit
Scots Gaelic thu Edit
Serbian ти
[ti]
Edit
Slovak vy Edit
Slovenian vi Edit
Spanish Edit
Swedish du Edit
Tatar син Edit
Ukrainian ви
[vy]
Edit
Welsh chi Edit
Yiddish דו Edit

Saying You in Asian Languages

Language Ways to say you
Armenian դուք Edit
Azerbaijani Sən Edit
Bengali আপনি Edit
Chinese Simplified
[nín]
Edit
Chinese Traditional
[nín]
Edit
Georgian თქვენ Edit
Gujarati તમે Edit
Hindi आप Edit
Hmong koj Edit
Japanese 君は Edit
Kannada ನೀವು Edit
Kazakh Сіз Edit
Khmer អ្នក Edit
Korean 당신
[dangsin]
Edit
Kyrgyz сен Edit
Lao ທ່ານ Edit
Malayalam നിങ്ങളെ Edit
Marathi आपण Edit
Mongolian Та Edit
Myanmar (Burmese) သငျသညျ Edit
Nepali तपाईं Edit
Odia ତୁମେ Edit
Pashto تاسو Edit
Punjabi ਤੁਸੀਂ Edit
Sindhi توهان Edit
Sinhala ඔබ Edit
Tajik шумо Edit
Tamil நீங்கள் Edit
Telugu మీరు Edit
Thai คุณ Edit
Turkish sen Edit
Turkmen sen Edit
Urdu تم Edit
Uyghur سىز Edit
Uzbek siz Edit
Vietnamese bạn Edit

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Saying You in Middle-Eastern Languages

Language Ways to say you
Arabic أنت
[‘ant]
Edit
Hebrew אתה Edit
Kurdish (Kurmanji) hûn Edit
Persian شما Edit

Saying You in African Languages

Language Ways to say you
Afrikaans jy Edit
Amharic አንተ Edit
Chichewa inu Edit
Hausa ka Edit
Igbo Edit
Kinyarwanda wowe Edit
Sesotho o Edit
Shona iwe Edit
Somali aad Edit
Swahili wewe Edit
Xhosa wena Edit
Yoruba ti o Edit
Zulu wena Edit

Saying You in Austronesian Languages

Language Ways to say you
Cebuano ikaw Edit
Filipino ikaw Edit
Hawaiian ʻo ʻoe Edit
Indonesian kamu Edit
Javanese sampeyan Edit
Malagasy ianao Edit
Malay anda Edit
Maori koe Edit
Samoan oe Edit
Sundanese anjeun Edit

Saying You in Other Foreign Languages

Language Ways to say you
Esperanto vi Edit
Haitian Creole ou Edit
Latin vos Edit

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Afrikaans:

jy

Albanian:

ti

Amharic:

አንቺ

Arabic:

أنت

Armenian:

դու

Azerbaijani:

sən

Basque:

zuk

Belarusian:

вы

Bengali:

আপনি

Bosnian:

ti

Bulgarian:

ти

Catalan:

vostè

Cebuano:

ikaw

Chinese (Simplified):

Chinese (Traditional):

Corsican:

Croatian:

vas

Czech:

vy

Danish:

du

Dutch:

u

English:

you

Esperanto:

vi

Estonian:

sina

Finnish:

sinä

French:

toi

Frisian:

jo

Galician:

ti

Georgian:

შენ

German:

sie

Greek:

εσείς

Gujarati:

તમે

Haitian Creole:

ou menm

Hausa:

kai

Hawaiian:

ʻo ʻoe

Hebrew:

אתה

Hindi:

आप

Hmong:

koj

Hungarian:

te

Icelandic:

þú

Igbo:

gị

Indonesian:

kamu

Irish:

Italian:

tu

Japanese:

君は

Javanese:

sampeyan

Kannada:

ನೀವು

Kazakh:

сен

Khmer:

អ្នក

Korean:

당신

Kurdish:

hûn

Kyrgyz:

сен

Lao:

ເຈົ້າ

Latin:

vos

Latvian:

jūs

Lithuanian:

tu

Luxembourgish:

dir

Macedonian:

ти

Malagasy:

ianareo

Malay:

awak

Malayalam:

നിങ്ങൾ

Maltese:

int

Maori:

koe

Marathi:

आपण

Mongolian:

та

Myanmar (Burmese):

မင်း

Nepali:

तपाईं

Norwegian:

du

Nyanja (Chichewa):

inu

Pashto:

تاسو

Persian:

شما

Polish:

ty

Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil):

vocês

Punjabi:

ਤੁਸੀਂ

Romanian:

tu

Russian:

ты

Samoan:

oe

Scots Gaelic:

thu

Serbian:

ти

Sesotho:

uena

Shona:

iwe

Sindhi:

توهان

Sinhala (Sinhalese):

ඔයා

Slovak:

ty

Slovenian:

ti

Somali:

adiga

Spanish:

Sundanese:

anjeun

Swahili:

wewe

Swedish:

du

Tagalog (Filipino):

ikaw

Tajik:

шумо

Tamil:

நீங்கள்

Telugu:

మీరు

Thai:

คุณ

Turkish:

sen

Ukrainian:

ви

Urdu:

تم

Uzbek:

siz

Vietnamese:

bạn

Welsh:

ti

Xhosa:

wena

Yiddish:

דו

Yoruba:

ìwọ

Zulu:

wena

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I recently found out that French has two different words for «you.»

From here:

Tu is the familiar «you,» which demonstrates a certain closeness and informality. … Vous is the formal «you.» It is used to show respect or maintain a certain distance or formality with someone. … Vous is also the plural «you» — you have to use it when talking to more than one person, no matter how close you are.

French is from the Romance language family, as far as I know.

I was immediately reminded of the verse (Malachi 1:6):

וְאִם-אָב אָנִי אַיֵּה כְבוֹדִי וְאִם-אֲדוֹנִים אָנִי אַיֵּה מוֹרָאִי

This (from Hebrew) literally means: «But if I [G-d] am a father, where is My honor? And if I am masters, where is My fear?» The word «masters» is in the plural, but it uses the word «I» and «My» in the singular! (As a side note, Hebrew has a different word for «you» s. and «you» pl.)

It is interesting to note that the major biblical commentators — among them Rashi, who ordinarily deals with simple questions in the text, such as translations; and Radak and Ibn Ezra, who were both grammarians — don’t address this. The first one to address this was the Metzudos who writes (in Metzudas Tziyon): «It is the practice of the scripture to mention the name of ‘mastery’ in plural language; similarly, ‘The masters of Joseph’ (Gen. 39:20).»

Is there any relation between this French grammar rule and the Hebrew rule, in which the plural is also used for respect? (If there is, it would solve the problem of why Rashi didn’t say anything about it, since he was French.) Is there any known reason how this Semitic language can end up with something that a Romance language has?

English[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

  • ye (archaic nominative, dialectal plural)
  • ya, yah, yer, yeh, y’, yo, yu, yuh (informal or eye dialect)
  • -cha (informal, after /t/)
  • -ja (informal, after /d/)
  • u (informal, internet)
  • yoo (eye dialect)
  • yew (obsolete or eye dialect)
  • youe, yow, yowe (obsolete)

Etymology[edit]

From Middle English you, yow, ȝow (object case of ye), from Old English ēow (you, dative case of ġē), from Proto-Germanic *iwwiz (you, dative case of *jīz), Western form of *izwiz (you, dative case of *jūz), from Proto-Indo-European *yūs (you, plural), *yū́.

Cognate with Scots you (you), Saterland Frisian jou (you), West Frisian jo (you), Low German jo, joe and oe (you), Dutch jou and u (you), Middle High German eu, iu (you, object pronoun), Latin vōs (you), Avestan 𐬬𐬋(, you), Ashkun yë̃́ (you), Kamkata-viri šó (you), Sanskrit यूयम् (yūyám, you)

See usage notes. Ye, you and your are cognate with Dutch jij/je, jou, jouw; Low German ji, jo/ju, jug and German ihr, euch and euer respectively. Ye is also cognate with archaic Swedish I.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (stressed)
    • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: yo͞o, IPA(key): /juː/ help,
    • (General American) enPR: yo͞o, IPA(key): /ju/ help
    • (General Australian) enPR: yo͞o, IPA(key): /jʉː/
    • Rhymes: -uː
  • (unstressed)
    • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: yo͞o, IPA(key): /ju/
    • (General American, General Australian) enPR: , IPA(key): /jə/ help
  • Homophones: ewe, u, yew, yu, hew (in h-dropping dialects), hue (in h-dropping dialects)

When a word ending in /t/, /d/, /s/, or /z/ is followed by you, these may coalesce with the /j/, resulting in /tʃ/, /dʒ/, /ʃ/ and /ʒ/, respectively. This is occasionally represented in writing, e.g. gotcha (from got you) or whatcha doin’? (more formally what are you doing?).

Pronoun[edit]

you (second person, singular or plural, nominative or objective, possessive determiner your, possessive pronoun yours, singular reflexive yourself, plural reflexive yourselves)

  1. (object pronoun) The people spoken, or written to, as an object. [from 9th c.]

    Both of you should get ready now.

    • 1611, The Holy Bible, [] (King James Version), London: [] Robert Barker, [], →OCLC, Genesis 42:14, column 1:

      And Ioſeph ſaid vnto them, That is it that I ſpake vnto you, ſaying, Ye are ſpies.

  2. (reflexive, now US colloquial) (To) yourselves, (to) yourself. [from 9th c.]
    • c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: []”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [] (First Folio), London: [] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

      If I may counsaile you, some day or two / Your Highnesse shall repose you at the Tower […].

    • 1611, The Holy Bible, [] (King James Version), London: [] Robert Barker, [], →OCLC, Genesis XIX::

      And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the Lord will destroy this city.

    • 1970, Donald Harington, Lightning Bug:
      ‘Pull you up a chair,’ she offered.
    • 1975, Joseph Nazel, Death for Hire:

      You’d better get you a gun and kill him before he kills you or somebody.

  3. (object pronoun) The person spoken to or written to, as an object. (Replacing thee; originally as a mark of respect.) [from 13th c.]
    • c. 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book VIII:
      I charge you, as ye woll have my love, that ye warne your kynnesmen that ye woll beare that day the slyve of golde uppon your helmet.
  4. (subject pronoun) The people spoken to or written to, as a subject. (Replacing ye.) [from 14th c.]
    You are all supposed to do as I tell you.
    • 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
      Are you excited? ― Yes, I am excited!

  5. (subject pronoun) The person spoken to or written to, as a subject. (Originally as a mark of respect.) [from 15th c.]
    • c. 1395, Geoffrey Chaucer, «The Clerk’s Tale», Canterbury Tales, Ellesmere manuscript (c. 1410):
      certes lord / so wel vs liketh yow / And al youre werk / and euere han doon / þat we / Ne koude nat vs self deuysen how / We myghte lyuen / in moore felicitee […].
    • 1814 July, [Jane Austen], chapter IX, in Mansfield Park: [], volume II, London: [] T[homas] Egerton, [], →OCLC, page 208:

      You are right, Fanny, to protest against such an office, but you need not be afraid.

  6. (indefinite personal pronoun) Anyone, one; an unspecified individual or group of individuals (as subject or object). [from 16th c.]
    • 2001, Polly Vernon, The Guardian, 5 May 2001:
      You can’t choose your family, your lovers are difficult and volatile, but, oh, you can choose your friends — so doesn’t it make much more sense to live and holiday with them instead?

Usage notes[edit]

  • Originally, you was specifically plural (indicating multiple people), and specifically the object form (serving as the object of a verb or preposition; like us as opposed to we). The subject pronoun was ye, and the corresponding singular pronouns were thee and thou, respectively. In some forms of (older) English, you and ye doubled as polite singular forms, e.g. used in addressing superiors, with thee and thou being the non-polite singular forms. In the 1600s, some writers objected to the use of «singular you»[1] (compare objections to the singular they), but in modern English thee and thou are archaic and all but nonexistent and you is used for both the singular and the plural.
  • Several forms of English now distinguish singular you from various marked plural forms, such as you guys, y’all, you-uns, or youse, though not all of these are completely equivalent or considered Standard English.
  • The pronoun you is usually, but not always, omitted in imperative sentences. In affirmatives, it may be included before the verb (You go right ahead; You stay out of it); in negative imperatives, it may be included either before the don’t, or (more commonly) after it (Don’t you dare go in there; Don’t you start now).
  • The pronoun you is also used in an indefinite sense: the generic you.
  • See Appendix:English parts of speech for other personal pronouns.

Synonyms[edit]

  • (subject pronoun: person spoken/written to):
    yer (UK eye dialect)
    plus the alternative forms listed above and at Appendix:English personal pronouns
  • (subject pronoun: persons spoken/written to; plural): See Thesaurus:y’all
  • (object pronoun: person spoken/written to): thee (singular, archaic), ye, to you, to thee, to ye
  • (object pronoun: persons spoken/written to): ye, to you, to ye, to you all
  • (one): one, people, they, them

Derived terms[edit]

  • as you sow, so shall you reap
  • because you touch yourself at night
  • believe you me
  • generic you
  • how are you
  • IOU
  • mind you
  • nice to meet you
  • see you in the funny papers
  • see you later
  • smell you later
  • thank you
  • what do you say
  • what say you
  • you know
  • you’d
  • you’ll
  • you’re
  • you’ve

Descendants[edit]

  • Belizean Creole: yu
  • Bislama: yu
  • Cameroon Pidgin: you
  • Jamaican Creole: yuh
  • Nigerian Pidgin: yu
  • Sranan Tongo: yu
  • Tok Pisin: yu
  • Torres Strait Creole: yu

Translations[edit]

See also[edit]

Determiner[edit]

you

  1. The individual or group spoken or written to.
    Have you gentlemen come to see the lady who fell backwards off a bus?
  2. Used before epithets, describing the person being addressed, for emphasis.
    You idiot!
    • 2015, Judi Curtin, Only Eva, The O’Brien Press, →ISBN:

      You genius!’ I shouted in Aretta’s ear. ‘You absolute genius! Why didn’t you tell us you were so good?’

Derived terms[edit]

  • y’all
  • you guys
  • you-uns

Translations[edit]

Verb[edit]

you (third-person singular simple present yous, present participle youing, simple past and past participle youed)

  1. (transitive) To address (a person) using the pronoun you (in the past, especially to use you rather than thou, when you was considered more formal).
    • 1930, Barrington Hall, Modern Conversation, Brewer & Warren, page 239:
      Youing consists in relating everything in the conversation to the person you wish to flatter, and introducing the word “you” into your speech as often as possible.
    • 1992, Barbara Anderson, Portrait of the Artist’s Wife, Victoria University Press, page 272:
      Now even Princess Anne had dropped it. Sarah had heard her youing away on television the other night just like the inhabitants of her mother’s dominions beyond the seas.
    • 2004, Ellen Miller, Brooklyn Noir, Akashic Books, «Practicing»:
      But even having my very own personal pronoun was risky, because it’s pretty tough to keep stopped-hope stopped up when you are getting all youed up, when someone you really like keeps promising you scary, fun, exciting stuff—and even tougher for the of that moment to remain securely devoid of hope, to make smart, self-denying decisions with Dad youing me—the long ooo of it broad and extended, like a hand.

Translations[edit]

Noun[edit]

you (plural yous)

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter U.
    • 2004 Will Rogers, The Stonking Steps, p. 170
      It said, in a whispering, buzzing voice, «Gee-you-ess-ess-ay-dash-em-ee-ar-ar-wye-dash-em-eye-en-gee-oh-dash-pee-eye-pee-dash-pee-ee-ar-ar-wye-dash-pee-eye-en-gee-oh.»

Alternative forms[edit]

  • u

References[edit]

  1. ^ The British Friend (November 1st, 1861), notes: «In 1659, Thomas Ellwood, Milton’s friend and scoretary, thus expresses himself—“ The corrupt and unsound form of speaking in the plural number to a single person, you to one instead of thou, contrary to the pure, plain, and simple language …»

Cameroon Pidgin[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

  • yu

Etymology[edit]

From English you.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ju/

Pronoun[edit]

you

  1. thou, thee, 2nd person singular subject and object personal pronoun

See also[edit]

Cameroonian Pidgin personal pronouns

Subject personal pronouns
singular plural
1st person I we, wu
2nd person you wuna
3rd person i dey
Object and topic personal pronouns
1st person me we
2nd person you wuna
3rd person yi, -am dem, -am

Japanese[edit]

Romanization[edit]

you

  1. Rōmaji transcription of よう

See also[edit]

Karawa[edit]

Noun[edit]

you

  1. water

References[edit]

  • transnewguinea.org, citing D. C. Laycock, Languages of the Lumi Subdistrict (West Sepik District), New Guinea (1968), Oceanic Linguistics, 7 (1): 36-66

Leonese[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Leonese yo, from Vulgar Latin eo (attested from the 6th century), from Latin ego, from Proto-Italic *egō; akin to Greek εγώ (egó), Sanskrit अहम् (aham), all from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂.

Pronoun[edit]

you

  1. I

See also[edit]

Leonese personal pronouns

nominative disjunctive dative accusative
first person singular you min1 me
plural masculine nosoutros nos
feminine nosoutras
second person singular familiar tu ti1 te
formal3 vusté
plural familiar masculine2 vosoutros vos
feminine vosoutras
formal3 vustedes
third person singular4 masculine2 él ye lu
feminine eilla la
plural masculine2 eillos yes los
feminine eillas las
reflexive 1
  1. Not used with cun; cunmiéu, cuntiéu, and cunsiéu are used instead, respectively
  2. Masculine Leonese pronouns can be used when the gender of the subject is unknown or when the subject is plural and of mixed gender.
  3. Treated as if it were third-person for purposes of conjugation and reflexivity.
  4. A neuter form eillu exists too.

Mandarin[edit]

Romanization[edit]

you

  1. Nonstandard spelling of yōu.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of yóu.
  3. Nonstandard spelling of yǒu.
  4. Nonstandard spelling of yòu.

Usage notes[edit]

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

Middle English[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Pronoun[edit]

you

  1. Alternative form of yow

Etymology 2[edit]

Pronoun[edit]

you

  1. (chiefly Northern and East Midland dialectal) Alternative form of þou

Mirandese[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Leonese you, from Vulgar Latin eo (attested from the 6th century), from Latin ego.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /jow/

Pronoun[edit]

you

  1. I (the first-person singular pronoun)
    • 2008, Picä Tumilho (band) (music), “Ai que cochino!!! (ver. II)”, in Faíçca: Ua stória d’amor i laboura:

      I you cun muita fuorça spetei bien la faca

      And I strongly skewered (with) the knife.

Pouye[edit]

Noun[edit]

you

  1. water

References[edit]

  • transnewguinea.org, citing D. C. Laycock, Languages of the Lumi Subdistrict (West Sepik District), New Guinea (1968), Oceanic Linguistics, 7 (1): 36-66

Takia[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Bargam yuw and Waskia yu.[1]

Noun[edit]

you

  1. water

References[edit]

  • Malcolm Ross, Andrew Pawley, Meredith Osmond, The Lexicon of Proto-Oceanic: The Culture and Environment (2007, →ISBN
  1. ^ Loanwords in Takia, in Loanwords in the World’s Languages: A Comparative Handbook (edited by Martin Haspelmath, Uri Tadmor), page 761

Terebu[edit]

Noun[edit]

you

  1. fire

Further reading[edit]

  • Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)

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