# taw
## English
### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /tɔː/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔː
* Homophones: tau (one pronunciation); tor (non-rhotic); tore (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger); tour (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger, pour–poor merger)

### Etymology 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 tether.

#### Verb

taw (third-person singular simple present taws, present participle tawing, simple past and past participle tawed)
* (transitive, obsolete) To prepare or dress, as hemp, by beating; to tew.
* (transitive, by extension) To beat; to scourge.
* (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.
** (transitive) To turn (animals' hide) into leather, usually by soaking it in a certain solution.

##### Related terms

* tool

#### Noun

taw
* (obsolete) Tawed leather.

#### Derived terms

* tawse

### Etymology 2

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

#### Noun

taw (plural taws)
* 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.
* A line or mark from which the players begin a game of marbles.
* (square dancing) A dance partner.
    Walk around your corner; see-saw around your taw.
* A favorite person; beloved, partner, spouse.

##### Derived terms

* ring-taw

#### Verb

taw (third-person singular simple present taws, present participle tawing, simple past and past participle tawed)
* To shoot a marble.

### Etymology 3

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

#### Alternative forms

* tav, taf, tau

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtaʊ/
* Rhymes: -aʊ

#### Noun

taw (plural taws)
* The 22nd and last letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads, including Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, and Arabic.

##### Translations
#### See also

* Appendix:Hebrew alphabet

#### Further reading

* taw on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Etymology 4

Compare tew (“to tow”), and tow.

#### Alternative forms

* tawe (obsolete)

#### Verb

taw (third-person singular simple present taws, present participle tawing, simple past and past participle tawed)
* To push; to tug; to tow.
** 1630, Michael Drayton, The Muses' Elizium:Swans vpon the Streame to tawe me

### References

* ↑ “taw, n$^3$.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
* 1 2 “taw”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

### Anagrams

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

## Ili Turki
### Noun

taw
* mountain

### References

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

## Karakalpak
### Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *tāg.

### Noun

taw
* mountain

### References

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

## Maguindanao
### Etymology

Akin to Tagalog tao.

### Noun

taw
* a person

## Maltese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /taw/

### Verb

taw
* third-person plural perfect of ta

## Maranao
### Noun

taw
* a person, a man or a woman, a human

## Tatar
### Noun

taw
* mountain

## Welsh
### Etymology 1

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

#### Pronunciation

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

#### Conjunction

taw
* (South Wales) that (introduces a noun clause, marking it for emphasis)
** 1990, Y Faner, p. 8:
    Gadewch imi ddatgan taw gwaith caled fydd y cyfan.Let me declare that hard work it will all be.

##### Synonyms

* (formal) (North Wales, colloquial) mai

### Etymology 2

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

#### Pronunciation

* (North Wales) IPA: /taːu̯/
* (South Wales) IPA: /tau̯/
* Rhymes: -au̯

#### Noun

taw m (uncountable)
* silence

##### Derived terms

* distaw (“quiet, silent”)
* rhoi taw ar (“to silence”)
* taw piau hi (“mum's the word”)
* tewi (“to be silent”)

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

taw
* second-person singular imperative of tewi

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### References

* 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
* ↑ Thorne, David A. (1993) A Comprehensive Welsh Grammar (Reference Grammars), Oxford and Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, →ISBN, § 353 B, page 377

## White Hmong
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /taɨ̯˧/

### Noun

taw (classifier: tus)
* foot

#### Derived terms

* dab taws
* ko taw
* luj taws
* ntiv taw
* pob taws
* rau taw
* xib taws
* yas taw

### References

* Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎, SEAP Publications, →ISBN, page 310.
* ↑ Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 283.

## Wolof
### Etymology

Cognate with Fula toɓo, Laalaa fetoɓ, Serer teƥ.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

taw
* to rain

### Noun

taw (definite form taw bi)
* rain