taw

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EnglishEdit

PronunciationEdit

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

Etymology 1Edit

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.

VerbEdit

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.

Related termsEdit

• tool

NounEdit

taw (plural taws)

1. (obsolete) Tawed leather.

Derived termsEdit

• tawse

Etymology 2Edit

Unknown.

NounEdit

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.

VerbEdit

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

1. to shoot a marble

Etymology 3Edit

Alternative formsEdit

• tav
• taf

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

taw (plural taws)

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

TranslationsEdit

Semitic letter

• Hebrew: תָּו‎ (he) f (tav), ת‎ (he) (symbol)
• Latin: thau n

• Yiddish: תּו‎ m, f (tof)

Further readingEdit

• taw on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 4Edit

Compare tew (“to tow”), and tow.

VerbEdit

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

1. To push; to tug; to tow.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Drayton to this entry?)

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.

ReferencesEdit

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

AnagramsEdit

• ATW, AWT, TWA, WAT, WTA, Wat, wat

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WelshEdit

Etymology 1Edit

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

ConjunctionEdit

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.

SynonymsEdit

• mai

Etymology 2Edit

VerbEdit

taw

1. second-person singular imperative of tewi

MutationEdit

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