Meanings
every sense kept, sourced — never inventedto look; watch; view; glancecurated
to examine; inspect; considercurated
to consider; regard; deemwiktionary
to look; seem; appearwiktionary
to look after; take care of; guard; protectwiktionary
to see; find out; learn; ascertainwiktionary
to see; foresee; foretellwiktionary
for trial; experimentallywiktionary
In the readings
real sentences, spoken by real voicesเราฟังเสียงและดูก้านของมัน
We listen to the sound and look at the stem.
ตอนเด็กๆ พ่อพาผมไปดูครั้งหนึ่ง
When I was little, my dad took me there once.
พ่อของฉันเดินออกไปดูที่นาทุกเช้า
My father walks out to look at the field every morning.
เขาดูมีความสุข
He looks happy —
ทุกคนรู้ เพราะดูปฏิทินไทย
People know by checking the Thai calendar.
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”).