tod

See also:Appendix:Variations of "tod"

English

Pronunciation

• (UK)IPA^(key):/tɒd/

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• Rhymes:-ɒd
• Rhymes:-ɑːd

Homophone:Todd

Etymology 1

FromMiddle Englishtod,of unknown origin. Possibly influenced by Etymology 2, due to its bushy tail.

Noun

tod(pluraltods)

1. A malefox.
2. (chieflyScotland)A fox in general.
   • c. 1620-1625,Ben Jonson,Pan's Anniversary
   • 1977,Richard Adams,The Plague Dogs:

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

3. (figuratively)Someone like a fox; acraftyperson.

Synonyms

• (male fox):dog-fox
• (fox):reynard

Hypernyms

• (male fox):fox

Coordinate terms

• (male fox):vixen(“female fox”)

Derived terms

• tod and lambs

Related terms

• Todd
• todd

Etymology 2

Cognate withGermanZotte(“clotted hair”),Saterland Frisiantodde(“bundle”),Swedishtodd(“mass (of wool)”,dialectal).

Noun

tod(pluraltods)

1. Abush,especially ofivy.
   • 1613–1614(date written),John Fletcher,William Shak[e]speare,The Two Noble Kinsmen:[…],London:[…]Tho[mas]Cotes,forIohn Waterson;[…],published1634,→OCLC,Act I, scene iv,page 2:

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

   • 1579,Immeritô [pseudonym;Edmund Spenser], “March. Ægloga Tertia.”, inThe Shepheardes Calender:[…],London:[…]Hugh Singleton,[…],→OCLC:

     For birds in bushes tooting:
     At length within the Ivytod

   • 1797–1798(date written),[Samuel Taylor Coleridge], “The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere”,inLyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems,London:[…]J[ohn]& A[rthur]Arch,[…],published1798,→OCLC:

     The ivytodis 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,volume27,page202:

     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, page209:

     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 presenttods,present participletodding,simple past and past participletodded)

1. (obsolete)Toweigh;to yield in tods.

See also

• on one's tod(etymologically unrelated)

Anagrams

• do't,Dot,DTO,OTD,ODT,dot,DoT,DOT

Belait

Etymology

FromProto-Malayo-Polynesian*tuhud,fromProto-Austronesian*tuduS.

Noun

tod

1. knee

Nawdm

Etymology

Cognate withMooretoɛɛga,Farefaretʋ'a,Dagbanitua,Ntchamditul,Mobatuolg,Gourmanchématuobu.

Noun

todd(pluraltoraɦa)

1. baobab

Related terms

• kaɦlm(“baobab kernel”)
• turbiir(“young baobab”)
• turbukɦa(“unripe baobab fruit”)
• turkekera(“baobab seed”)
• turkua(“baobab seed”)
• turvaat(“baobab leaf”)

References

• Bakabima, Koulon Stéphane, Nicole, Jacques (2018)Nawdm-French Dictionary‎^[1],SIL International

Old High German

Alternative forms

• dot,doth

Etymology

FromProto-Germanic*dauþuz,akin toOld Saxondōth,Old Dutchdōth,dōt,Old Englishdēaþ,Old Norsedauði,Gothic𐌳𐌰𐌿𐌸𐌿𐍃(dauþus).

Noun

tōdm

1. death,cessationof life

Related terms

• tōt

Descendants

• Middle High German:tōt
  • Alemannic German:

    Swabian:Daod,Dod

  • Central Franconian:

    Hunsrik:Dod

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

Old Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/tod/

Determiner

todmorfsg

1. Apocopicform oftodoortoda;all
   • c.1200,Almerich,Fazienda de Ultramar,f. 42v:

     […]ſobretodeſto dare amoab en ur̃a mano e crebantaredes todas cibdades en caſtelladas entodos los arbores fermoſos todas las fontanas del agua cerraredes. entodas las buenas ſẽnas abatredes e fizieron aſſi.

     “‘[…]And besidesallthis I will deliver Moab into your hands. And you will break every fortified city and every beautiful tree and every fountain of water you will stop up and every field you will ruin.’” And so they did.

Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/tòːt/,/tóːt/

Adverb

tọ̄d

1. (clarification of this definition is needed)thus

Further reading

• “tod”,inSlovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU,portal Fran
• “tod”,inTermania,Amebis
• See also thegeneral references