Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo pull apart or asunder; touse.
From Middle English tosen (“to card wool”), from Old English *tāsan (“to tease”), from Proto-West Germanic *taisan (“to tug, separate, shred”), from Proto-Indo-European *deh₂y- (“to divide, separate”).
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