Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗To prepare or dress, as hemp, by beating; to tew. · To beat; to scourge. · To dress and prepare, as the skins of sheep, lambs, goats, and kids, for gloves, etc., by imbuing them with alum, salt, and other agents, for softening and bleaching them. · To turn (animals' hide) into leather, usually by soaking it in a certain solution.
Tawed leather.
From Middle English tawen, from Old English tawian (“to do, make”), from Proto-West Germanic *tawōn, a variant of Proto-West Germanic *tauwjan, from Proto-Germanic *tawjaną (“to make, prepare”), from Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂- (“to tie to, secure”). Cognate with Dutch touwen (“to rope, tether, curry”), Dutch tuien (“to fasten with ropes”), German Tau (“rope, hawser, cable”), Gothic 𐍄𐌰𐌿𐌾𐌰𐌽 (taujan, “to make, prepare”). Related to tool and possibly to tether.
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- Root classification mention*dewh₂-ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentiontawenenm
- Inherited-form mentiontawianang · to do, make
- Inherited-form mention*tawōngmw-pro
- Derivation mention*tauwjangmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*tawjanągem-pro · to make, prepare
- Derivation mention*dewh₂-ine-pro · to tie to, secure
- Cognate mentiontouwennl
- Cognate mentiontuiennl
- Cognate mentionTaude
- Cognate mention𐍄𐌰𐌿𐌾𐌰𐌽got
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