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tach
English
Etymology 1
Clipping of tachometer
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tæk/
- Rhymes: -æk
Noun
tach (plural tachs)
- (informal) Tachometer
Etymology 2
Backslang for hat (with /t?/ substituted for the /h/).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tæt?/
- Rhymes: -æt?
Noun
tach (plural taches)
- (obsolete, costermongers) A hat.
Etymology 3
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tæk/
- Rhymes: -æk
Noun
tach (uncountable)
- (medicine, colloquial) Tachycardia.
Anagrams
- ACTH, CHAT, Cath, cath, cath., chat
Cimbrian
Alternative forms
- dach (Sette Comuni)
Etymology
From Middle High German dach, from Old High German dah, from Proto-Germanic *þak? (“roof, cover”). Cognate with German Dach, English thack.
Noun
tach f
- (Luserna) roof
Declension
References
- “tach” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien
Middle English
Etymology 1
Unknown. Perhaps related to trasch or Modern English tatch (“to set grass on fire”).
Noun
tach (uncountable)
- touchwood, tinder
Alternative forms
- tache, tasch, tasche, tasshe
References
- “tach(e, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 2
From Old French tache (“stain, spot”), of uncertain origin; perhaps a native derivation, or borrowed from Gothic.
Noun
tach (plural taches)
- characteristic
- disfigurement, blemish
- symbol, sign
Alternative forms
- tacche, tachche, tatche, tak, tech, teche, tecche, tetche
Descendants
- English: tache, tatch
- Scots: tache
- ?? English: tetchy
References
- “tach(e, n.(3).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 3
Verb
tach (third-person singular simple present tacheth, present participle tachinge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle taught)
- Alternative form of techen
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tache
English
Etymology 1
Clipping of moustache or mustache.
Alternative forms
- tash (misspelling)
- 'tache
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /t???/, Rhymes: -???
- (US) IPA(key): /tæ?/, Rhymes: -æ?
Noun
tache (plural taches)
- (informal) Moustache, mustache.
Synonyms
- stache, 'stache
Etymology 2
From French tache (“a spot”). See tetchy.
Noun
tache (plural taches)
- (now rare) A spot, stain, or blemish.
- 1531, Thomas Elyot, The Boke named the Governour
- the herynge or seynge of any vice or euyl tache
- 1993, Rikki Ducornet, The Jade Cabinet, Dalkey Archive Press, p. 95:
- Alone I cared for our mother who did little else but stare at taches on floor and ceiling.
- 1531, Thomas Elyot, The Boke named the Governour
Etymology 3
See tack (“a kind of nail”).
Noun
tache (plural taches)
- Something used for taking hold or holding; a catch; a loop; a button.
Anagrams
- Teach, chate, cheat, he-cat, teach, theca
French
Etymology
From Middle French tache, from Old French tache, taiche, taje (“mark, spot, stain”), from Vulgar Latin *tacca, *tecca, from Gothic ???????????????????????? (taikns, “mark, sign”), from Proto-Germanic *taiknaz, *taikn? (“sign, mark”), from Proto-Indo-European *dey?- (“to show”). Influenced by forms related to Frankish *stakjan, *stakkijan (“to stick, attach”) and Gothic ???????????????????? (staks, “mark”). See attacher. For levelling and shortening of diphthong ai in taikns compare Old French hanter, hangart, etc. Cognate with Old High German zeihhan (“sign, symbol, feature”), Old English t?cn (“sign, marker”). More at token.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ta?/
- Homophone: tâche (France)
- Rhymes: -a?
Noun
tache f (plural taches)
- blot, stain or smear
- spot; more or less stain-like mark of a different color
- (skin) blotch, mark
- moral depravation
- annoying or despicable person
Derived terms
Related terms
- tacher
- tacheter
Further reading
- “tache” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Haitian Creole
Etymology
From French attacher (“attach”).
Verb
tache
- attach
Old French
Alternative forms
- teche, tesche, taiche, taje
Etymology
Uncertain. Two origins are proposed:
- From Vulgar Latin *tacca, *tecca, from Gothic ???????????????????????? (taikns, “mark, sign”), from Proto-Germanic *taiknaz, *taikn? (“sign, mark”).
- From the verb tachier, from Latin tax?re (“to feel, touch”).
Noun
tache f (oblique plural taches, nominative singular tache, nominative plural taches)
- mark; stain
Descendants
- Middle French: taiche
- French: tache
- ? Middle English: tach, tache, tasch, tasche, tasshe
- English: tache, tatch
- Scots: tache
- ?? English: tetchy
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (tache)
Spanish
Noun
tache m (plural taches)
- (Mexico) a line or lines written to cross out something
Verb
tache
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of tachar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of tachar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of tachar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of tachar.
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