taw

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /tɔː/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Tawed leather. obsolete
  2. A favorite marble in the game of marbles.
    — Near the timberyard a squatted child at marbles, alone, shooting the taw with a cunnythumb.
  3. The 22nd and last letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads, including Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, and Arabic.
  4. A line or mark from which the players begin a game of marbles.
  5. A dance partner.
    — Walk around your corner; see-saw around your taw.
  6. A favorite person; beloved, partner, spouse.
动词 v.
  1. To prepare or dress, as hemp, by beating; to tew. obsolete,transitive
  2. To shoot a marble.
  3. To push; to tug; to tow.
    — Swans vpon the Streame to tawe me
  4. To beat; to scourge. broadly,transitive
  5. To dress and prepare, as the skins of sheep, lambs, goats, and kids, for gloves, etc., by imbuing them with alum, salt, and other agents, for softening and bleaching them. transitive
  6. To dress and prepare, as the skins of sheep, lambs, goats, and kids, for gloves, etc., by imbuing them with alum, salt, and other agents, for softening and bleaching them.; To turn (animals' hide) into leather, usually by soaking it in a certain solution. transitive

词形变化

taws present,singular,third-person tawing participle,present tawed participle,past tawed past taws plural taws present,singular,third-person tawing participle,present tawed participle,past tawed past taws plural tav alternative taf alternative tau alternative taws present,singular,third-person tawing participle,present tawed participle,past tawed past tawe alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

衍生词
tawer tawery tawyer ring-taw
相关词
tool

词源

词源 1
From Middle English tawen, from Old English tawian (“to do, make”), from Proto-West Germanic *tawōn, a variant of Proto-West Germanic *tauwjan, 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 possibly to tether.
词源 2
Unknown. Attested in English from the 18th century. Compare Old English tāw (“instrument”). Also compare Irish togh (“choose, elect”).
词源 3
Compare Phoenician 𐤕 (tāw), Hebrew ת (tav), Arabic تاء (tāʔ).
词源 4
Compare tew (“to tow”), and tow.
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