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English
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Tod
- (colloquial) Todmorden.
2013, Jessica Fanzo, Danny Hunter, Teresa Borelli, Diversifying Food and Diets:The Todmorden News carried the comment endorsing that decision: 'This should now send Sainsbury's a clear signal, should they appeal, that they are not welcome in Tod.
2014, Steve Hanson, Small Towns, Austere Times:The Daily Mail article describes Joe Strachan:
...a wealthy U.S. former sales director who decided to settle in Tod with his Scottish wife, after many years in California.
- Alternative form of Todd.
Anagrams
German
Etymology
From Middle High German tōt, from Old High German tōd, from Proto-West Germanic *dauþu, from Proto-Germanic *dauþuz. Compare Old Saxon dōth, Dutch dood, English death, Danish død.
Pronunciation
Noun
Tod m (strong, genitive Todes or Tods, plural Tode)
- death
Der Tod kam endlich zu ihm her.- Death finally came to him.
Usage notes
- Like Leben, this noun is usually used with the definite article.
- Tod is fairly exceptional in that, even beyond set expressions such as zum Tode verurteilt (“sentenced to death”) or sich zu Tode langweilen (“to be bored to death”), the archaic dative -e is still applied productively to some extent. Thus, seit seinem Tode is possible in formal style alongside seit seinem Tod, without sounding odd, as would be the case with most other nouns outside of fixed expressions. This does not apply to compounds, such as Freitod, however. (Another simplex noun that still sometimes occurs with the dative -e is Krieg (“war”).)
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Further reading
- “Tod” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Tod” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “Tod” in Duden online
Tod on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de