Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗Impractical or unsuitable for real-world use, due to being unrealistically small or simple.
Something to play with, especially as intended for use by a child. · A thing of little importance or value; a trifle. · A simple, light piece of music, written especially for the virginal. · Ellipsis of toy dog.
To play (with) in an idle or desultory way. · To ponder or consider. · To stimulate with a sex toy.
Inherited from Middle English toye (“amorous play, piece of fun or entertainment”), probably from Middle Dutch toy, tuyg (“tools, apparatus, utensil, ornament”) as in Dutch speel-tuig (“plaything, toy”), from Old Dutch *tiug, from Proto-West Germanic *tiugī̆, *teug, from Proto-Germanic *teugą (“stuff, matter, device, gear, lever”, literally “that which is drawn or pulled”), from Proto-Germanic *teuhaną (“to lead, bring, pull”), from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to pull, lead”). Cognate with Dutch tuig (“thing”), German Zeug (“stuff”), Danish tøj (“stuff”), Icelandic tygi, Norwegian tøy (“equipment, riggings, stuff”), Swedish tyg (“cloth, textile, fabric”). Related to tug, tow, taw, tew.
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Root classification mention*dewk-ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentiontoyeenm
- Cognate mentiontoydum
- Cognate mentionspeeltuignl
- Derivation mention*tiugodt
- Derivation mention*tiugī̆gmw-pro
- Derivation mention*teugągem-pro · stuff, matter, device, gear, lever
- Derivation mention*teuhanągem-pro
- Derivation mention*dewk-ine-pro
- Cognate mentiontuignl
- Cognate mentionZeugde
- Cognate mentiontøjda
- Cognate mentiontygiis
- Cognate mentiontøyno
- Cognate mentiontygsv
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