different between tod vs stod

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

English

Noun

stod (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of stød

Anagrams

• DOTs, DTOs, TODs, dost, dots, tods

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?sd?oð?], [?sd?o?]

Verb

stod

1. past tense of stå

Middle English

Verb

stod

1. first/third-person singular past of standen

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• sto

Verb

stod

1. simple past of stå

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

stod

1. past of stå

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *st?d?, from Proto-Indo-European *steh?- (“stand, set”). Cognate with Old High German stuot (“herd of horses”) (German Stute (“mare”)), Old Norse stóð (Swedish sto (“mare”)). The Indo-European root is also the source of Albanian shtazë (“animal, beast”) and Old Church Slavonic ????? (stado, “herd”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sto?d/

Noun

st?d n

1. an enclosure for breeding horses
2. a horse or horses used for breeding

Descendants

• Middle English: stode, stod, stude, stud
  • English: stud
  • Scots: stod, stud, stude, stuid
  • Yola: sthit

Verb

st?d

1. first/third-person singular preterite of standan

Swedish

Pronunciation 1

• IPA^(key): /stu?d/

Noun

stod c

1. a statue

Declension

Synonyms

• bildstod
• staty

Pronunciation 2

• IPA^(key): /stu?(d)/
• IPA^(key): /stu??/

Verb

stod

1. past tense of stå.