It sounds like what's called an 'emphatic particle', in Hindi at least (तो, 'to'...

		OJFord on March 21, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Sumerian dog jokes, or the difficulty of translati... It sounds like what's called an 'emphatic particle', in Hindi at least (तो, 'to') which marks the topic or shifts emphasis in a sentence.