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teach
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ti?t??/
- Rhymes: -i?t?
Etymology 1
From Middle English techen, from Old English t??an (“to show, declare, demonstrate; teach, instruct, train; assign, prescribe, direct; warn; persuade”), from Proto-West Germanic *taikijan, from Proto-Germanic *taikijan? (“to show”), from Proto-Indo-European *dey?- (“to show”). Cognate with Scots tech, teich (“to teach”), German zeigen (“to show, point out”), zeihen (“accuse, blame”), Gothic ???????????????????????????????? (gateihan, “to announce, declare, tell, show, display”), Latin d?c? (“speak, say, tell”), Ancient Greek ???????? (deíknumi, “show, point out, explain, teach”). More at token.
Verb
teach (third-person singular simple present teaches, present participle teaching, simple past and past participle taught)
- (obsolete, transitive) To show (someone) the way; to guide, conduct; to point, indicate.
- c1450, Mandeville's Travels?
- Blessed God of might (the) most.. teach us the right way unto that bliss that lasteth aye.
- c1460, Cursor Mundi?
- Till thy sweet sun uprose, thou keptest all our lay, how we should keep our belief there taught'st thou us the way.
- c1450, Mandeville's Travels?
- (ditransitive) To pass on knowledge to.
- Synonyms: educate, instruct
- (intransitive) To pass on knowledge, especially as one's profession; to act as a teacher.
- Antonym: learn
- (ditransitive) To cause to learn or understand.
- (ditransitive) To cause to know the disagreeable consequences of some action.
Conjugation
Derived terms
Translations
References
- The Middle English Dictionary
- NED
Etymology 2
Clipping of teacher
Noun
teach (plural teaches)
- (informal, usually as a term of address) teacher
Anagrams
- 'tache, Tache, Taché, Tâche, chate, cheat, he-cat, tache, theca
Irish
Alternative forms
- tigh dative; has replaced the nominative in Munster Irish
- toigh (Ulster) dative; replaced the nominative in East Ulster.
Etymology
From Old Irish tech, from Proto-Celtic *tegos, from Proto-Indo-European *tegos (“cover, roof”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t?ax/
- (Cois Fharraige) IPA(key): /t?æ?x/
Noun
teach m (genitive singular tí, nominative plural tithe)
- house
Declension
- Alternative genitive singular: tighe, toighe
- Alternative dative singular: toigh
- Alternative plural: tithí (Ulster)
Derived terms
Mutation
Further reading
- "teach" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
- “tea?” in Foclóir Gae?ilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1st ed., 1904, by Patrick S. Dinneen, page 724.
- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “tech, teg”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Entries containing “teach” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
- Entries containing “teach” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
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Etymology
From Middle English techen, from Old English t??an, from Proto-West Germanic *taikijan.
Verb
teach (simple past teigkt or teight)
- to hand or give
References
- Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN
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punish
English
Alternative forms
- punishe (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English punischen, from Anglo-Norman, Old French puniss-, stem of some of the conjugated forms of punir, from Latin puni? (“to inflict punishment upon”), from poena (“punishment, penalty”); see pain.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?p?n??/
- Hyphenation: pun?ish
Verb
punish (third-person singular simple present punishes, present participle punishing, simple past and past participle punished)
- (transitive) To cause to suffer for crime or misconduct, to administer disciplinary action.
- 1818, William Cobbett, The Parliamentary History of England, from the Earliest Period to the Year 1803, page 255
- It was not from the want of proper laws that dangerous principles had been disseminated, and had assumed a threatening aspect, but because those laws had not been employed by the executive power to remedy the evil, and to punish the offenders.
- 2007, Matthew Weait, Intimacy and Responsibility: The Criminalisation of HIV Transmission, Routledge (?ISBN), page 80
- The law needs to punish this behaviour as a deterrent to others.
- 2017, Joyce Carol Oates, Double Delight, Open Road Media (?ISBN)
- His mother had punished him when he'd deserved it. She'd loved him, he was “all she had,” but she'd punished him, too.
- Synonym: castigate
- 1818, William Cobbett, The Parliamentary History of England, from the Earliest Period to the Year 1803, page 255
- (transitive, figuratively) To treat harshly and unfairly.
- 1994, Valerie Polakow, Lives on the Edge: Single Mothers and Their Children in the Other America, University of Chicago Press (?ISBN), page 68
- But each effort that Anna makes —and she has attempted many— meets with obstacles from a welfare bureaucracy that punishes single mothers for initiative and partial economic self-sufficiency.
- 2008, Seth Benardete, The Bow and the Lyre: A Platonic Reading of the Odyssey, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (?ISBN), page 5
- Homer, moreover, gives the impression that the Sun punished Odysseus's men; but we are later told that the Sun cannot punish individual men […]
- 2009, Gordon Wright, Learning to Ride, Hunt, and Show, Skyhorse Publishing Inc. (?ISBN), page 44
- The rider who comes back on his horse in mid-air over a fence is punishing his horse severely.
- Synonym: mistreat
- 1994, Valerie Polakow, Lives on the Edge: Single Mothers and Their Children in the Other America, University of Chicago Press (?ISBN), page 68
- (transitive, colloquial) To handle or beat severely; to maul.
- (transitive, colloquial) To consume a large quantity of.
- 1970, Doc Greene, The Memory Collector (page 49)
- A few moments later, we were all sitting around the veranda of the hunters' dining hall, punishing the gin, as usual.
- 1970, Doc Greene, The Memory Collector (page 49)
Derived terms
- punishable
- punisher (noun)
- punishing
- punishment (noun)
- telish, telishment
Related terms
- pain
Translations
Further reading
- punish in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- punish in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- push in, push-in, pushin', unship
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