different between tod vs leben

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /t?d/
• Rhymes: -?d
• Rhymes: -??d

Etymology 1

From Middle English tod, of unknown origin. Possibly influenced by Etymology 2, due to its bushy tail. Cognate with Scots tod.

Noun

tod (plural tods)

1. (now Britain dialect) A fox.
   • c. 1620-1625, Ben Jonson, Pan's Anniversary

     the wolf, the tod, the brock

   • 1977, Richard Adams, The Plague Dogs

     Who am Ah? Ah'm tod, whey Ah'm tod, ye knaw. Canniest riever on moss and moor!

   1. A male fox; a dog; a reynard.
2. Someone like a fox; a crafty person.

Synonyms

• (male fox): dog-fox

Hypernyms

• (male fox): fox

Coordinate terms

• (male fox): vixen (“female fox”)

Related terms

• Todd
• todd

References

Etymology 2

Apparently cognate with Saterland Frisian todde (“bundle”), Swedish todd (“mass (of wool)”, dialectal).

Noun

tod (plural tods)

1. A bush, especially of ivy.
   • c. 1614, John Fletcher, William Shakespeare, The Two Noble Kinsmen, Act 4, Scene 2, 1997, Lois Potter (editor), The Two Noble Kinsmen, page 277,

     His head's yellow, / Hard-haired, and curled, thick-twined like ivy tods, / Not to undo with thunder.

   • 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

     The ivy tod is heavy with snow.

2. 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, p. 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, p. 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)

1. (obsolete) To weigh; to yield in tods.

Anagrams

• DOT, DTO, Dot, ODT, OTD, do't, dot

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *dauþuz, akin to Old Saxon d?th, Old Dutch d?th, d?t, Old English d?aþ, Old Norse dauði, Gothic ???????????????????????? (dauþus).

Noun

t?d m

1. death, cessation of life

Related terms

• t?t

Descendants

• Middle High German: t?t
  • Alemannic German:

    Swabian: Daod, Dod

  • Central Franconian:

    Hunsrik: Dod

  • German: Tod
  • Luxembourgish: Doud
  • Yiddish: ????? (toyt)

Old Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [toð]

Determiner

tod m or f sg

1. Apocopic form of todo or toda; all
   • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 42v.

Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tò?t/, /tó?t/

Adverb

t??d

1. (clarification of this definition is needed) thus

Further reading

• “tod”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

German

Etymology

From Old High German leb?n, from Proto-West Germanic *libbjan, from Proto-Germanic *libjan?, from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“leave, cling, linger”). Cognate with Old Saxon libbian (Middle Low German leven, German Low German l?ven, lewen (“to live”)), Dutch leven, English live, West Frisian libje, Old Norse lifa (Swedish leva), Gothic ???????????????????? (liban).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?le?b?n/, [?le?bm?], [?le?b(?)n]

Verb

leben (weak, third-person singular present lebt, past tense lebte, past participle gelebt, auxiliary haben)

1. (intransitive) to live, to be alive
2. (intransitive) to dwell, to reside
   • 2010, Der Spiegel, issue 35/2010, page 102:

3. (intransitive) to live, to exist, to occupy a place

4. (intransitive, hyperbolic) to cope with, to live with, to deal with

Conjugation

Synonyms

• wohnen

Derived terms

Related terms

• bleiben
• Leben
• lebendig
• Leib

Further reading

• “leben” in Duden online
• “leben” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Nubi

Etymology

From Arabic ?????? (laban).

Noun

lében

1. milk

Old High German

Etymology 1

From Proto-West Germanic *libbjan, from Proto-Germanic *libjan?, related to Old English libban, Old Norse lifa. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“leave, cling, linger”).

Verb

leb?n

1. to live

Conjugation

Descendants

• Middle High German: leben
  • Alemannic German: lëëbe
    • Alsatian: lawe
    • Swabian: läba
  • Bavarian:

    Cimbrian: lem

    Mòcheno: lem

  • German: leben
  • Luxembourgish: liewen
  • Vilamovian: ?aowa
  • Yiddish: ????? (lebn)

Etymology 2

Derived from the verb leb?n.

Noun

leb?n n

1. life

Descendants

• Middle High German: leben
  • Alemannic German: Läbe
  • German: Leben
  • Mòcheno: lem
  • Yiddish: ????? (lebn)