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ดู

duuverb

look; watch

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Meanings

every sense kept, sourced — never invented
1v.

to look; watch; view; glancecurated

2v.

to examine; inspect; considercurated

3v.

to consider; regard; deemwiktionary

4v.

to look; seem; appearwiktionary

5v.

to look after; take care of; guard; protectwiktionary

6v.

to see; find out; learn; ascertainwiktionary

7v.

to see; foresee; foretellwiktionary

8adv.

for trial; experimentallywiktionary

In the readings

real sentences, spoken by real voices

Built from

From Proto-Southwestern Tai *ˀduːᴬ³ (“to look; to watch”). Compare Lao ດູ (dū), Northern Thai ᨯᩪ, Tai Dam ꪒꪴ, Shan လူ (lǔu), Phake ꩫ︀ူ (nū), Ahom 𑜎𑜥 (lū). For the derived sense of "for trial", note a similar semantic association found in the unrelated Japanese 見る (miru, “to see; (auxiliary) to try”).

Words built from it

ดู inside longer words
กินดูto try eating [something] (literally) to eat [something] for trialลองดูto try; to try out (literally) to try for trialรอดูto wait [and] see