An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language - LightNovelsOnl.com
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_Wall._
T
_To_ TA, _v. a._ To take.
_Barbour._
TA, _adj._ One after _the_.
_Barbour._
TA ~and~ FRA, To and fro.
_Barbour._
TAANLE, _s._
V. ~Tawnle~.
_To_ TAAVE, _v. a._
1. To make tough, by working with the hands, Moray. Banffs.
Dan. _tave_, a filament, _taved_, stringy; or a variety of ~Taw~, _v._ 2.
2. To touse.
_Gl. Surv. Mor._
3. To entangle.
_Ibid._
~Taavin~, ~Tawin~, _s._ Wrestling, tumbling.
Teut. _touw-en_, agitare.
_Journ. Lond._
TAAVE, TYAAVE, _s._ Difficulty, Banffs.
V. ~Tawan~.
TAAVE-TAES, _s. pl._ Pitfir split into fibres for making ropes, Moray.
V. ~Taave~, _v._
TABETS, TEBBITS, _s._ Bodily sensation, S. B.
C. B. _tyb-io_, _tyb-ygio_, to feel.
~Tabetless~, ~Tapetless~, ~Tebbitless~, _adj._
1. Benumbed, S. B.
2. Heedless, S. O.
_Burns._
TABRACH, _s._ Animal food nearly in a state of carion, Fife.
Dan. _tab-e_, to lose; or corr. from ~Cabrach~, q. v.
_To_ TACH, TATCH, _v. a._ To arrest.
_Wallace._
Fr. _attach-er_, id.; Isl. _tak-a_, _tak-ia_, to take.
TACHT, _adj._ Tight, S. B.
Sw. _tact_, id.
TACK, TAK, _s._ Act of seizure.
_Acts Ja. IV._
TACK, _s._ A slight hold, S.; E. _tack_, _v._
TACK, _s._ Act of catching fishes, S.
