English
T-form
T-form comes from Latin tu ‘you (singular)’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*túh₂‘you, thou’reconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*tū‘you’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtu‘you (singular)’
- Englishearliest quotation 1996T-form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*túh₂‘you, thou’reconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*tū‘you’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtu‘you (singular)’
- Englishearliest quotation 1996T-form
Earliest quotation: 1996, Marco Jacquemet: “Shifting his feet and still perplexed, he then asked…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *túh₂ ‘you, thou’
Today it means
noun A second-person pronoun used in informal situations, to address friends, family, and sometimes inferiors.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *túh₂ / T-form