tus

See also: Appendix:Variations of "tus"

Languages (20)

Translingual

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Albanian • Asturian • Catalan • Cornish • Danish • Fala • Finnish • French • Hungarian • Latin • Livonian • Middle English • Norman • North Frisian • Palula • Somali • Spanish • White Hmong • Wolof

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Translingual

Etymology

Clipping of English Tuscarora.

Symbol

tus

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Tuscarora.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Tuscarora terms

Albanian

Alternative forms

• tut — Gheg

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *tutja, cognate to Old Norse þeya (“to melt”), Old High German douwen (“id”), with 'being silent' as an intermediary stage of semantic development. Alternatively related to tund.

Verb

tus (aorist tuta, participle tutë)

1. (transitive) to frighten

Related terms

• ftoh
• tund

Further reading

• “tut”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006

Asturian

Alternative forms

• tos

Etymology

From Latin tussis, tussem.

Noun

tus f (plural tus)

1. cough (expulsion of air from the lungs)

Related terms

• tusir

Catalan

Verb

tus

1. inflection of tossir:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Cornish

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *tʉd, from Proto-Celtic *toutā, from Proto-Indo-European *tewtéh₂.

Pronunciation

• (Revived Middle Cornish) IPA^(key): [tyːz]
• (Revived Late Cornish) IPA^(key): [tiːz]

Noun

tus (collective)

1. men
2. people, persons

See also

• den

Danish

Alternative forms

• tusch

Etymology

Attested since 1974, of obscure origin, but probably related to German tuschen (“to paint with watercolors”).

Noun

tus c (singular definite tussen, plural indefinite tusser)

1. felt-tip pen

Inflection

Declension of tus

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	tus	tussen	tusser	tusserne
genitive	tus'	tussens	tussers	tussernes

Fala

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtus/
• Rhymes: -us
• Syllabification: tus

Determiner

tus f pl

1. (Lagarteiru) apocopic form of túas (“your”)

Usage notes

• Used in Lagarteiru before a feminine plural noun as part of a noun phrase.

See also

Fala possessive determiners and pronouns

			possessee
			singular		plural
			masculine	feminine	masculine	feminine
possessor	first person	singular	mei	miña	meis	miñas
		plural	nosu	nosa	nosus	nosas
	second person	singular	tei	túa, tu1	teis	túas, tus1
		plural	vosu	vosa	vosus	vosas
	third person		sei	súa, su1	seis	súas, sus1

¹ Determiner forms used in Lagarteiru before a noun.

References

• Valeš, Miroslav (2021), Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎^[1], 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN, page 266

Finnish

Noun

tus

1. abbreviation of tusina (“dozen”)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ty/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

  (file)

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

Verb

tus

1. first/second-person singular past historic of taire

Participle

tus m pl

1. masculine plural of tu

Anagrams

• sut, sût

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtuʃ]
• Hyphenation: tus
• Rhymes: -uʃ

Etymology 1

From German Tusche (“Indian ink”), from tuschen, from French toucher. First attested in 1782.

Noun

tus (plural tusok)

1. Indian ink (black ink made from lampblack)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	tus	tusok
accusative	tust	tusokat
dative	tusnak	tusoknak
instrumental	tussal	tusokkal
causal-final	tusért	tusokért
translative	tussá	tusokká
terminative	tusig	tusokig
essive-formal	tusként	tusokként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	tusban	tusokban
superessive	tuson	tusokon
adessive	tusnál	tusoknál
illative	tusba	tusokba
sublative	tusra	tusokra
allative	tushoz	tusokhoz
elative	tusból	tusokból
delative	tusról	tusokról
ablative	tustól	tusoktól
non-attributive possessive – singular	tusé	tusoké
non-attributive possessive – plural	tuséi	tusokéi

Possessive forms of tus

possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	tusom	tusaim
2nd person sing.	tusod	tusaid
3rd person sing.	tusa	tusai
1st person plural	tusunk	tusaink
2nd person plural	tusotok	tusaitok
3rd person plural	tusuk	tusaik

Derived terms

• tuskihúzó
• tusrajz

Etymology 2

From German Tusch, possibly from tuschen. First attested in 1784.

Noun

tus (plural tusok)

1. (music) flourish (ceremonious passage)
   • 1848, Sándor Petőfi, Lehel vezér‎^[2], canto 1, stanza 46, lines 5-8:

     És mikor vége lett a jókivánságnak, / A muzsikusok rá hangos tust huzának, / A sok összeveszett hang forgott a légben, / Mint a por a forgószélnek örvényében.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 1869, Mór Jókai, A kőszívű ember fiai‎^[3], part 1, chapter 1:

     A háttérbe állított egyiptomi zenekar vezetőjének nyirettyűje a levegőbe volt emelve, hogy amint a tósztnak vége szakad, friss lelkesüléssel rándítsa rá a pohárzaj-elnémító tust, […]

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 1892, Mór Jókai, chapter 15, in Rákóczy fia‎^[4]:

     De még fényesebb volt a pékek parádéja […] Császári lovasság kísérte őket elöl-hátul, közben céhzászlókat emelve, s a hírhedett pékbillikomot ürítgetve, járultak a daliás péklegények nagy muzsikaszóval, s minden pékbolt előtt riadó tust húzattak, égre emelt kardokkal esküdve, hogy míg a nap az égen jár, nem lesz a világon párja a bécsi császárzsemlyének és perecnek!

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. (obsolete) drinking to someone's health

   Tust ittak az egészségére. — They drank to his health.

Declension

Same as above.

Etymology 3

From German Dusche (“shower”), from French douche (“shower”). First attested in 1900.

Noun

tus (plural tusok)

1. shower

Declension

Same as above.

Derived terms

• tusfürdő
• tusol

Etymology 4

From the dialectal tusa (“large end of a stick”), of unknown origin. First attested in 1838.

Noun

tus (plural tusok)

1. butt (of a rifle)
2. (dialectal) large end of a stick

Declension

Same as above.

Synonyms

• (butt): agy, puskaagy, puskatus

Derived terms

• puskatus

Etymology 5

From French touche (“touch”), from toucher (“to touch”). First attested in 1878.

Noun

tus (plural tusok)

1. (fencing) touch
2. (wrestling) fall, pinfall (instance of being pinned to the mat)

Declension

Same as above.

Derived terms

• tussol

Further reading

• (India ink): tus in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
• (flourish in music): tus in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
• (shower): tus in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
• (rifle butt): tus in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
• (touch in fencing): tus in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈtuːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈtus]

Noun

tūs n (genitive tūris); third declension

1. alternative form of thūs (“incense; frankincense”)

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

	singular	plural
nominative	tūs	tūra
genitive	tūris	tūrum
dative	tūrī	tūribus
accusative	tūs	tūra
ablative	tūre	tūribus
vocative	tūs	tūra

Livonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *tussu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtus/, [ˈtusː]

Noun

tus

1. tuft

Declension

Declension of tus (79)

	singular (ikšlu’g)	plural (pǟgiņlu’g)
nominative (nominatīv)	tus	tusūd
genitive (genitīv)	tus	tusūd
partitive (partitīv)	tussõ	tusīdi
dative (datīv)	tussõn	tusūdõn
instrumental (instrumentāl)	tussõks	tusūdõks
illative (illatīv)	tussõ	tusīž
inessive (inesīv)	tussõ	tusīs
elative (elatīv)	tusstõ	tusīst

References

• Tiit-Rein Viitso; Valts Ernštreits (2012–2013), “tus”, in Līvõkīel-ēstikīel-lețkīel sõnārōntõz [Livonian-Estonian-Latvian Dictionary]‎^[5] (in Estonian and Latvian), Tartu, Rīga: Tartu Ülikool, Latviešu valodas aģentūra

Middle English

Adverb

tus

1. (Early Middle English, before dentals) alternative form of þus

Norman

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

tus m (plural tuss)

1. (Jersey) tuft

Synonyms

• toupet
• tun

North Frisian

Alternative forms

• tosch, tusch (Goesharde)
• toske (Halligen)
• teän (Heligoland)
• täis (Mooring)
• Ter (Sylt)
• tuis (Wiedingharde)

Etymology

From Old Frisian tōth, tusk, from Proto-West Germanic *tanþ, from Proto-Germanic *tanþs (“tooth”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃dónts (“tooth”). Föhr-Amrum dialect has retained the umlaut alternation, while Mooring and Sylt have generalized the plural vowel.

Noun

tus m (plural tes)

1. (Föhr-Amrum) tooth

Palula

Etymology

From Sanskrit युष्मद् (yuṣmad, “pron. 2 pl”), with analogical t- from the singular forms.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tus/

Pronoun

tus (personal, Perso-Arabic spelling تُس)

1. you (2pl nom)

References

• Henrik Liljegren; Naseem Haider (2011), “tus”, in Palula Vocabulary (FLI Language and Culture Series; 7)‎^[6], Islamabad, Pakistan: Forum for Language Initiatives, →ISBN
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985), “tus”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press

Somali

Verb

tus

1. to show

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tus/ [t̪us]

• Audio (Colombia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -us
• Syllabification: tus

Determiner

tus pl

1. plural of tu

Related terms

Spanish possessive determiners

possessor		preposed		postposed or standalone
		singular possessee	plural possessee	singular possessee		plural possessee
				masculine	feminine	masculine	feminine
first person	singular	mi	mis	mío	mía	míos	mías
	plural	(same as postposed/standalone)		nuestro	nuestra	nuestros	nuestras
second person	singular	tu	tus	tuyo	tuya	tuyos	tuyas
	plural	(same as postposed/standalone)		vuestro	vuestra	vuestros	vuestras
third person		su	sus	suyo	suya	suyos	suyas

White Hmong

Alternative forms

• tug

Etymology

From Proto-Hmongic *dɛŋᴮ (“classifier for horses”), probably borrowed from Chinese 頭 / 头 (“head; classifier for animals, cylindrical stub-like objects, etc.”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tu˩/

Classifier

tus

1. classifier for long objects (such as rods or sticks) and animals or beings

References

• Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979), White Hmong — English Dictionary‎^[7], SEAP Publications, →ISBN.

Wolof

Wolof cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : tus

Numeral

tus

1. zero