tod
See also: Appendix:Variations of "tod"
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /tɒd/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- Rhymes: -ɒd
- Rhymes: -ɑːd
Homophone: Todd
Etymology 1
From Middle English tod, of unknown origin. Possibly influenced by Etymology 2, due to its bushy tail.[1]
Noun
tod (plural tods)
- A male fox.
- (chiefly Scotland) A fox in general.
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- Who am Ah? Ah'm tod, whey Ah'm tod, ye knaw. Canniest riever on moss and moor!
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- (figuratively) Someone like a fox; a crafty person.
Hypernyms
- (male fox): fox
Coordinate terms
- (male fox): vixen (“female fox”)
Derived terms
References
- Skeat
Etymology 2
Cognate with German Zotte (“clotted hair”), Saterland Frisian todde (“bundle”), Swedish todd (“mass (of wool)”, dialectal).
Noun
tod (plural tods)
- A bush, especially of ivy.
- 1613–1614 (date written), John Fletcher, William Shak[e]speare, The Two Noble Kinsmen: […], London: […] Tho[mas] Cotes, for Iohn Waterson; […], published 1634, →OCLC, Act I, scene iv, page 2:
- His head's yellow, / Hard-haired, and curled, thick-twined like ivy tods, / Not to undo with thunder.
- 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “March. Ægloga Tertia.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC; reprinted as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, The Shepheardes Calender […], London: John C. Nimmo, […], 1890, →OCLC:
- For birds in bushes tooting:
At length within the Ivy tod
- 1797–1798 (date written), [Samuel Taylor Coleridge], “The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere”, in Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems, London: […] J[ohn] & A[rthur] Arch, […], published 1798, →OCLC:
- The ivy tod is heavy with snow.
- An old English measure of weight, usually of wool, containing two stone or 28 pounds (13 kg).
- 1843, The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, volume 27, page 202:
- Seven pounds make a clove, 2 cloves a stone, 2 stone a tod, 6 1/2 tods a wey, 2 weys a sack, 12 sacks a last. [...] It is to be observed here that a sack is 13 tods, and a tod 28 pounds, so that the sack is 364 pounds.
- 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 4, page 209:
- Generally, however, the stone or petra, almost always of 14 lbs., is used, the tod of 28 lbs., and the sack of thirteen stone.
Verb
tod (third-person singular simple present tods, present participle todding, simple past and past participle todded)
- (obsolete) To weigh; to yield in tods.
See also
- on one's tod (etymologically unrelated)
Nawdm
Etymology
Cognate with Moore toɛɛga, Farefare tʋ'a, Dagbani tua, Ntcham ditul, Moba tuolg, Gourmanchéma tuobu.
Related terms
- kaɦlm (“baobab kernel”)
- turbiir (“young baobab”)
- turbukɦa (“unripe baobab fruit”)
- turkekera (“baobab seed”)
- turkua (“baobab seed”)
- turvaat (“baobab leaf”)
Old High German
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *dauþuz, akin to Old Saxon dōth, Old Dutch dōth, dōt, Old English dēaþ, Old Norse dauði, Gothic 𐌳𐌰𐌿𐌸𐌿𐍃 (dauþus).
Related terms
Old Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tod/
Determiner
tod m or f sg
- Apocopic form of todo or toda; all
- c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 42v:
- […] ſobre tod eſto dare amoab en ur̃a mano e crebantaredes todas cibdades en caſtelladas entodos los arbores fermoſos todas las fontanas del agua cerraredes. entodas las buenas ſẽnas abatredes e fizieron aſſi.
- “‘ […] And besides all this I will deliver Moab into your hands. And you will break every fortified city and every beautiful tree and every fountain of water you will stop up and every field you will ruin.’” And so they did.
Slovene
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tòːt/, /tóːt/
Further reading
- “tod”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
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