taw

See also: Taw

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /tɔː/
  • Homophone: tau (Greek letter)

Etymology 1

From Middle English tawen, from Old English tawian (“to do, make”), from Proto-Germanic *tawjaną (“to make, prepare”), from Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂- (“to tie to, secure”).

Cognate with Dutch touwen (“to rope, tether, curry”), Dutch tuien (“to fasten with ropes”), German Tau (“rope, hawser, cable”), Gothic 𐍄𐌰𐌿𐌾𐌰𐌽 (taujan, “to make, prepare”). Related to tool and tether.

Verb

taw (third-person singular simple present taws, present participle tawing, simple past and past participle tawed)

  1. (transitive, obsolete) To prepare or dress, as hemp, by beating; to tew; hence, to beat; to scourge.
  2. (transitive) To dress and prepare, as the skins of sheep, lambs, goats, and kids, for gloves, and the like, by imbuing them with alum, salt, and other agents, for softening and bleaching them.
  3. (transitive) Specifically, to turn (animals’ hide) into leather, usually by soaking it in a certain solution.

Noun

taw (plural taws)

  1. (obsolete) Tawed leather.

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Unknown.

Noun

taw (plural taws)

  1. A favorite marble in the game of marbles.
  2. A line or mark from which the players begin a game of marbles.
  3. ring-taw
  4. (square dancing) dance partner
    Walk around your corner, see-saw around your taw.
  5. A favorite person; beloved, partner, spouse.

Verb

taw (third-person singular simple present taws, present participle tawing, simple past and past participle tawed)

  1. to shoot a marble

Etymology 3

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtaʊ/

Noun

taw (plural taws)

  1. The twenty-second and last letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
Translations

Further reading

Etymology 4

Compare tew (“to tow”), and tow.

Verb

taw (third-person singular simple present taws, present participle tawing, simple past and past participle tawed)

  1. To push; to tug; to tow.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for taw in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

References

  • Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

Anagrams

Welsh

Etymology 1

From Proto-Celtic *tāti (compare Old Irish at·tá), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand”).

Conjunction

taw

  1. (South Wales) that (introduces a noun clause, marking it for emphasis)
    • 1990, Y Faner, p. 8 (quoted in D.A. Thorne, A Comprehensive Welsh Grammar, Blackwell 1993, p. 377):
      Gadewch imi ddatgan taw gwaith caled fydd y cyfan.
      Let me declare that hard work it will all be.
Synonyms

Etymology 2

From Proto-Celtic *tawsos (“silent”), from Proto-Indo-European *teh₂ws- (“still, silent”) (compare Sanskrit तूष्णीम् (tūṣṇīm, “silently”)).

Noun

taw m (uncountable)

  1. silence
Derived terms

Etymology 3

Verb

taw

  1. second-person singular imperative of tewi

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radicalsoftnasalaspirate
taw daw nhaw thaw
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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