tallow英语原文释义、词形变化、词源和词汇关系

英文释义

名词 n.

A hard animal fat obtained from suet, etc.; used in cooking as well as to make candles, soap and lubricants. countable,uncountable

— "I have got a very fine shirt, which I am going to use for my wedding shirt; but there are three tallow stains on it which I want washed out[.]"

动词 v.

To grease or smear with tallow.
To cause to have a large quantity of tallow; to fatten. transitive

— to tallow sheep
Of animals: to develop quantities of tallow. intransitive

— […] their beef is finer than that of the old short-horned breed, and they fatten much earlier and quicker, conveying still a vast depth of natural flesh, and tallowing within in the first degree.

词形变化

tallows plural tallows present,singular,third-person tallowing participle,present tallowed participle,past tallowed past

词汇关系

衍生词

untallowed

词源

词源 1

From Middle English talow, talgh, from Old English *tealh, *tealg, (compare Old English tælg, telg (“dye”)), from Proto-West Germanic *talg, from Proto-Germanic *talgaz (compare Dutch talg, German Talg), from Proto-Indo-European *del- (“to flow”) (compare Middle Irish delt (“dew”), Old Armenian տեղ (teł, “heavy rain”)).

词源 2

From Middle English talow, talgh, from Old English *tealh, *tealg, (compare Old English tælg, telg (“dye”)), from Proto-West Germanic *talg, from Proto-Germanic *talgaz (compare Dutch talg, German Talg), from Proto-Indo-European *del- (“to flow”) (compare Middle Irish delt (“dew”), Old Armenian տեղ (teł, “heavy rain”)).