Tand
Bavarian
Etymology
From Middle High German tant (“idle talk, tricks”), of unclear origin, possibly a Romance borrowing, compare Spanish tanto (“purchase price”, literally “so much”). Cognate with Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), Danish tant, Norwegian Bokmål tant.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈd̥and̥/
Derived terms
German
Etymology
From Middle High German tant (“idle talk, tricks”), of unclear origin, possibly a Romance borrowing, compare Spanish tanto (“purchase price”, literally “so much”)[1]. Cognate with Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), Danish tant, Norwegian Bokmål tant.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tant/
- Rhymes: -ant
Audio (file)
Noun
Tand m (strong, genitive Tandes or Tands, no plural)
- (dated) trifles; trinkets
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:Zeug
- 1808, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust: Der Tragödie erster Teil [Faust, Part One]:
- Ist es nicht Staub? was diese hohe Wand, / Aus hundert Fächern, mir verenget; / Der Trödel, der mit tausendfachem Tand, / In dieser Mottenwelt mich dränget?
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Declension
Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Related terms
References
- Friedrich Kluge (1883), “Tand”, in , John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891
Further reading
- “Tand” in Duden online
- “Tand” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Tand” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.