different between tue vs mue

English

Noun

tue (plural tues)

1. Archaic form of tui (the parson bird)

Anagrams

• ETU, TEU, Ute, ute

Alemannic German

Etymology

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

Verb

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, p. 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.

Conjugation

References

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

Blagar

Alternative forms

• tuwe

Numeral

tue

1. three

References

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

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tue?/, [?t?ue?(?)]
• Rhymes: -ue
• Syllabification: tu?e

Verb

tue

1. Indicative present connegative form of tukea.
2. Second-person singular imperative present form of tukea.
3. Second-person singular imperative present connegative form of tukea.

Anagrams

• etu, etu-

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ty/
• Homophones: tu, tues, tuent, tus, tut, tût
• Rhymes: -y

Verb

tue

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

Participle

tue

1. feminine singular of the past participle of taire

Anagrams

• eut, eût

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tu??/

Verb

tue

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

Italian

Etymology

From Latin tuae.

Adjective

tue

1. feminine plural of tuo

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?tu.e/, [?t?u?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?tu.e/, [?t?u??]

Pronoun

tue

1. vocative masculine singular of tuus

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse þúfa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²t???/ (example of pronunciation)

Alternative forms

• tuve

Noun

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.

Etymology 2

Noun

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

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

References

• “tue” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• etu, ute

Sardinian

Alternative forms

• tui (campidanese)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tue/

Pronoun

tue (second person singular)

1. you, thou

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mju?/
• Homophones: mew, mu

Verb

mue (third-person singular simple present mues, present participle muing, simple past and past participle mued)

1. (obsolete) To mew; to moult.
   • 1620, Francis Quarles, A Feast for Wormes

     Their nakednesse with sackcloth let them hide,
     And mue the vest'ments of their silken pride

Anagrams

• EMU, MEU, Ume, emu, meu, ume

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /my/
• Homophones: mu, mû

Etymology 1

Latin m?t?, see the verb muer

Noun

mue f (plural mues)

1. moulting (UK) / molting (US) (of bird, mammal)
2. metamorphosis (of insect)
3. sloughing of skin (of reptile)
4. casting (of stag)
5. breaking of voice
6. (literary) transformation

Verb

mue

1. first-person singular present indicative of muer
2. third-person singular present indicative of muer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of muer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of muer
5. second-person singular imperative of muer

Etymology 2

See mouvoir

Verb

mue

1. feminine singular of the past participle of mouvoir

Anagrams

• ému

Further reading

• “mue” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Anglo-Norman mue.

Noun

mue

1. Alternative form of mewe (“cage”)

Etymology 2

From Old French muer.

Verb

mue

1. Alternative form of mewen (“to moult”)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse múgi m.

Noun

mue f (definite singular mua, indefinite plural muer, definite plural muene)

1. Alternative form of muge f

Anagrams

• emu