different between tutoyer vs tutoy

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French tutoyer.

Pronunciation

Verb

tutoyer (third-person singular simple present tutoyers, present participle tutoyering, simple past and past participle tutoyered)

1. (transitive) To address (someone) in French using the familiar second-person pronoun tu; to thou.
   • 1862, The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal (volume 115, page 132)

     As I had begged Goethe to tutoyer me, he sent me a message to say, I must really remain more than the two days I had named, otherwise he should never get into the way of doing so.

   • 1866, William Stamer, Recollections of a Life of Adventure, Volume 1, page 83

     […] Corporal Cornichon, walking straight up to the bar, "tutoyering" me all the time in the most horridly familiar manner, clapped me on the back, and asked me to take a glass of cognac with him.

Synonyms

• tutoy

Translations

See also

• T-V distinction
• thou ~ you

French

Etymology

From tu + -oyer with euphonic t; compare the Icelandic þúa, German duzen and English thou. Cognate with Spanish tutear.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ty.twa.je/

Verb

tutoyer

1. (transitive) to thou (to address (someone) using the informal second-person pronoun tu rather than the formal vous)

   Antonym: vouvoyer

2. (colloquial) to be familiar with, to be close to something.

Conjugation

This verb is part of a large group of -er verbs that conjugate like noyer or ennuyer. These verbs always replace the ‘y’ with an ‘i’ before a silent ‘e’.

Derived terms

• tutoiement

See also

• T-V distinction

Further reading

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

English

Etymology

From French tutoyer.

Verb

tutoy (third-person singular simple present tutoys, present participle tutoying, simple past and past participle tutoyed)

1. (transitive) To address by the informal French pronoun tu (“you”).

Synonyms

• tutoyer

Translations

Cebuano

Noun

tutoy

1. either of the two organs on the front of a woman's chest, which contain the mammary glands; also the analogous organs in men
2. the breasts and upper thorax of a woman; the bust
3. a baby bottle

Verb

tutoy

1. to suckle; to give suck to; to nurse at the breast, udder, or dugs
2. to nurse; to suck
3. (slang) to fellate a man; to suck off

Synonyms

• (baby bottle): biberon

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:tutoy.