An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/du

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An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, D
by Friedrich Kluge, translated by John Francis Davis

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2613764An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, D — duJohn Francis DavisFriedrich Kluge

du, 2nd personal pronoun, ‘thou’; from Middle High German and Old High German du, and the collateral Middle High German and Old High German dû; compare Anglo-Saxon þû, English thou; Latin tu, Greek τύ, σύ, and Sanscrit tvam, are primary cognates. The details respecting the Aryan pronominal stem belong to grammar.