tue

tue (plural tues)

1. Archaic form of tui (the parson bird)

• tue-iron

• “tue”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• ETU, TEU, Ute, ute

From Upper Middle High German tüejen, from Old High German tuon, from Proto-Germanic *dōną. Cognate with German tun, Dutch doen, West Frisian dwaan, English do.

tue (third-person singular simple present tuet, past participle taa, past subjunctive täät, auxiliary haa)

1. to do
   • 1902, Robert Walser, Der Teich:

     I tät scho gärn schpiele und jage.

     I'd rather play and run around.

   • 1908, Meinrad Lienert, ‘s Heiwili, page 5:

     Dr Vater goht und lot's älei. / Hät dänkt, es täg dem Göifli guet.

     The father goes and leaves her alone. He'd thought it would do the child good.

• Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & Co., page 85.

• tuwe

tue

1. three

• A. Schapper, The Papuan Languages of Timor, Alor and Pantar: Volume 1

• IPA^(key): /ˈtueˣ/, [ˈt̪ue̞(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -ue
• Syllabification^(key): tu‧e

tue

1. inflection of tukea:
   1. present active indicative connegative
   2. second-person singular present imperative
   3. second-person singular present active imperative connegative

• etu, etu-

• IPA^(key): /ty/

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• Homophones: tu, tues, tuent, tus, tut, tût
• Rhymes: -y

tue

1. inflection of tuer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

tue f sg

1. feminine singular of tu

• eut, eût

• IPA^(key): /ˈtuːə/

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tue

1. inflection of tun:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

From Latin tuae.

tue

1. feminine plural of tuo

• -ute

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈtu.e/, [ˈt̪uɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈtu.e/, [ˈt̪uːe]

tue

1. vocative masculine singular of tuus

From Old Norse þúfa.

• tuve

• IPA^(key): /²tʉːə/

tue f (definite singular tua, indefinite plural tuer, definite plural tuene)

1. a tussock, a small mound or tuft formed by certain grasses and small shrubs.

   Det er mange tuer med blåbær i skogen bak huset vårt.

   There are many tussocks of blueberry in the woods behind our house.

tue f (definite singular tua, indefinite plural tuer, definite plural tuene)

1. (dialectal, chiefly Trøndelag, nonstandard) alternative form of tvoge

• “tue” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• etu, ute

• tui (campidanese)

From Latin tū, from Proto-Italic *tū, from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂. Compare Italian tu, Portuguese tu, Spanish tú, French tu, Romanian tu, Aromanian tu, Corsican tù, Catalan tu, Sicilian tu.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtue/

tue (second person singular)

1. you, thou