taw

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tɔː/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː
• Homophones: tau (one pronunciation); tor (non-rhotic); tore (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger); tour (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger, pour–poor merger)

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 tether.

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.
2. (transitive, by extension) To beat; to scourge.
3. (transitive) 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.
   1. (transitive) To turn (animals' hide) into leather, usually by soaking it in a certain solution.

• tool

taw

1. (obsolete) Tawed leather.

• tawse

Unknown. Attested in English from the 18th century.^[1] Compare Old English tāw (“instrument”).^[2] Also compare Irish togh (“choose, elect”).

taw (plural taws)

2. A favorite marble in the game of marbles.
   • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 5]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, , →OCLC:

     Near the timberyard a squatted child at marbles, alone, shooting the taw with a cunnythumb.

3. A line or mark from which the players begin a game of marbles.
4. (square dancing) A dance partner.

   Walk around your corner; see-saw around your taw.

5. A favorite person; beloved, partner, spouse.

• ring-taw

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

1. To shoot a marble.

Compare Phoenician 𐤕 (tāw), Hebrew ת (tav), Arabic تاء (tāʔ).

• tav, taf, tau

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaʊ/
• Rhymes: -aʊ

taw (plural taws)

1. The 22nd and last letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads, including Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, and Arabic.

• Appendix:Hebrew alphabet

• taw on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Compare tew (“to tow”), and tow.^[2]

• tawe (obsolete)

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

1. To push; to tug; to tow.
   • 1630, Michael Drayton, The Muses' Elizium:

     Swans vpon the Streame to tawe me

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

• ATW, AWT, TWA, Twa, WAT, WTA, Wat, wat

taw

1. mountain

• Zhào Xiāngrú and Reinhard F. Hahn (1989). "The Ili Turk People and Their Language". Central Asiatic Journal.

From Proto-Turkic *tāg.

taw

1. mountain

• N. A. Baskakov, editor (1958), “таў”, in Karakalpaksko-Russkij Slovarʹ [Karakalpak-Russian Dictionary], Moscow: Akademija Nauk Uzbekskoj SSR, →ISBN

Akin to Tagalog tao.

taw

1. a person

• IPA^(key): /taw/

taw

1. third-person plural perfect of ta

taw

1. a person, a man or a woman, a human

taw

1. mountain

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

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /taːu̯/
  • (North Wales, colloquial) IPA^(key): /ta/, /tə/
• (South Wales, standard) IPA^(key): /tau̯/
• Rhymes: -au̯

taw

1. (South Wales) that (introduces a noun clause, marking it for emphasis)
   • 1990, Y Faner, p. 8^[1]:

     Gadewch imi ddatgan taw gwaith caled fydd y cyfan.

     Let me declare that hard work it will all be.

• (formal) (North Wales, colloquial) mai

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

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /taːu̯/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /tau̯/
• Rhymes: -au̯

taw m (uncountable)

1. silence

• distaw (“quiet, silent”)
• rhoi taw ar (“to silence”)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

taw

1. second-person singular imperative of tewi

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “taw”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

From Proto-Hmong *towᶜ (“foot”).^[1] Note similarities to Thai เท้า (táao, “id”).

• IPA^(key): /taɨ̯˧/

taw (classifier: tus)

1. foot

• Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎, SEAP Publications, →ISBN, page 310.

Cognate with Fula toɓo, Laalaa fetoɓ, Serer teƥ.

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taw

1. to rain

taw (definite form taw bi)

1. rain