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tach

English

Etymology 1

Clipping of tachometer

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tæk/
  • Rhymes: -æk

Noun

tach (plural tachs)

  1. (informal) Tachometer

Etymology 2

Backslang for hat (with /t?/ substituted for the /h/).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tæt?/
  • Rhymes: -æt?

Noun

tach (plural taches)

  1. (obsolete, costermongers) A hat.

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tæk/
  • Rhymes: -æk

Noun

tach (uncountable)

  1. (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

  1. (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)

  1. 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)

  1. characteristic
  2. disfigurement, blemish
  3. 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)

  1. 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)

  1. (informal) Moustache, mustache.

Synonyms

  • stache, 'stache

Etymology 2

From French tache (a spot). See tetchy.

Noun

tache (plural taches)

  1. (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.

Etymology 3

See tack (a kind of nail).

Noun

tache (plural taches)

  1. 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)

  1. blot, stain or smear
  2. spot; more or less stain-like mark of a different color
  3. (skin) blotch, mark
  4. moral depravation
  5. 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

  1. 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)

  1. 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)

  1. (Mexico) a line or lines written to cross out something

Verb

tache

  1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of tachar.
  2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of tachar.
  3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of tachar.
  4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of tachar.

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