different between taw vs haw

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /t??/
• Homophone: tau

Etymology 1

From Middle English tawen, from Old English tawian (“to do, make”), from Proto-Germanic *tawjan? (“to make, prepare”), from Proto-Indo-European *dewh?- (“to tie to, secure”).

Cognate with Dutch touwen (“to rope, tether, curry”), Dutch tuien (“to fasten with ropes”), German Tau (“rope, hawser, cable”), Gothic ???????????????????????? (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)

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.

Related terms

• tool

Noun

taw

1. (obsolete) Tawed leather.

Derived terms

• tawse

Etymology 2

Unknown.

Noun

taw (plural taws)

1. A favorite marble in the game of marbles.
   • 1922 , James Joyce, Ulysses, chapter V:^[1]

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

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

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

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

Verb

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

1. To shoot a marble.

Etymology 3

Alternative forms

• tav
• taf

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ta?/

Noun

taw (plural taws)

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

Translations

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)

1. To push; to tug; to tow.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Drayton to this entry?)

References

• 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

1. mountain

References

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

Tatar

Noun

taw

1. mountain

Welsh

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ta?u?/
• (South Wales, standard) IPA^(key): /tau?/
  • (North Wales, colloquial) IPA^(key): /ta/, /t?/

Conjunction

taw

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

Synonyms

• (formal) (North Wales, colloquial) mai

Etymology 2

From Proto-Celtic *tawsos (“silent”), from Proto-Indo-European *teh?ws- (“still, silent”) (compare Sanskrit ???????? (t????m, “silently”)).

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ta?u?/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /tau?/

Noun

taw m (uncountable)

1. silence

Derived terms

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

Etymology 3

Verb

taw

1. second-person singular imperative of tewi

Mutation

References

Wolof

Verb

taw

1. to rain

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, UK) IPA^(key): /h??/
• (General American, US) IPA^(key): /h??/
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

Imitative

Interjection

haw

1. An imitation of laughter, often used to express scorn or disbelief. Often doubled or tripled (haw haw or haw haw haw).

   You think that song was good? Haw!

2. An intermission or hesitation of speech, with a sound somewhat like "haw"; the sound so made.
   • 1720, William Congreve, An Impossible Thing

     Hums or haws.

Usage notes

• (an imitation of laughter): In the US, haw is rare (it was more used in the past), with ha being more common.

Translations

Verb

haw (third-person singular simple present haws, present participle hawing, simple past and past participle hawed)

1. To stop, in speaking, with a sound like haw; to speak with interruption and hesitation.

Derived terms

• hum and haw, hem and haw

Etymology 2

From Middle English hawe, from Old English haga (“enclosure, hedge”), from Proto-Germanic *hagô (compare West Frisian haach, Dutch haag, German Hag (“hedged farmland”)), from Proto-Indo-European *kag?om (compare Welsh cae (“hedge”), Latin caulae (“sheepfold, enclosure”), cohum (“strap between plowbeam and yoke”), Russian ??? (koš, “tent”), ??????? (košára, “sheepfold”), Sanskrit ???? (kak?a, “curtain wall”)), from *kag?- 'to catch, grasp' (compare Welsh cau (“to clasp”), Oscan kahad (“may he seize”), Albanian kam, ke (“to have, hold”)).

Noun

haw (plural haws)

1. Fruit of the hawthorn.

   Synonym: hawthorn berry

2. (historical) A hedge.

Derived terms

• apple haw (Crataegus aestivalis)
• black haw
• crimson haw (Crataegus biltmoriana)
• downy haw
• hawthorn
• hog's haw (Crataegus brachyacantha)
• mayhaw (Crataegus aestivalis)
• parsley haw (Crataegus marshallii)
• pear haw (esp. Crataegus tomentosa)
• possum haw
• purple haw (Condalia obovata)
• red haw
• rose haw
• scarlet haw (esp. Crataegus biltmoriana)
• Shawnee haw (Vibrnum nudum)
• summer haw (Crataegus aestivalis)
• swamp haw (Viburnum nudum)

Translations

Etymology 3

Unknown.

Interjection

haw

1. An instruction for a horse or other animal to turn towards the driver, typically left (See gee).

Translations

Verb

haw (third-person singular simple present haws, present participle hawing, simple past and past participle hawed)

1. (of an animal) To turn towards the driver, typically to the left.

   Antonym: gee

2. To cause (an animal) to turn left.

   Antonym: gee

Derived terms

Etymology 4

Uncertain.

Noun

haw (plural haws)

1. (anatomy) The third eyelid, or nictitating membrane.
2. A disease of the nictitating membrane.

Anagrams

• WHA, Wah, wah, wha

Jingpho

Etymology

Borrowed from Burmese ??? (hau:)

Verb

haw

1. to preach

References

• Kurabe, Keita (2016-12-31) , “Phonology of Burmese loanwords in Jinghpaw”, in Kyoto University Linguistic Research?^[1], volume 35, DOI:10.14989/219015, ISSN 1349-7804, pages 91–128

Kalasha

Etymology

From Sanskrit ?? (hala), from Proto-Indo-European *??h?ol-. Cognate with Lithuanian žúolis.

Noun

haw

1. plough

Middle English

Noun

haw

1. Alternative form of hawe

Scanian

Etymology

From Old Norse haf, from Proto-Germanic *hab?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [h???]

Noun

haw n (definite singular haweð, plural haw)

1. sea

Derived terms