ਤੁਸਾਂ

Punjabi

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tʊsãː/

Pronoun

ਤੁਸਾਂ • (tusā̃) (Shahmukhi spelling تساں) (obsolete in Malwai and Doabi)

  1. oblique of ਤੁਸੀਂ (tusī̃, “you”); ye (in conjunction with prepositions)
    Alternative form: ਤੁਹਾ- (tuhā-)
    ਤੁਸਾਂ 'ਤੇ ਕੀਤਾ
    tusā̃ 'te kītā
    [He] did it on you
  2. (by extension) ergative of ਤੁਸੀਂ (tusī̃, “you”); by ye
    ਤੁਸਾਂ ਵੇਖਿਆ ਹੈ?
    tusā̃ vekhiā hai?
    Have you seen it?

Further reading

  • Singh, Bhai Maya (1895) “ਤੁਸਾਂ”, in The Panjabi Dictionary, Lahore: Munshi Gulab Singh and Sons.
  • Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “yuṣmad”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 238
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