withe

Εννοια (Αγγλικός)

Noun

1. A flexible, slender shoot or twig, especially when used as a band or for binding; a withy.
2. A band of twisted twigs.
3. An elastic handle to a tool to save the hand from the shock of blows.
4. An iron attachment on one end of a mast or boom, with a ring, through which another mast or boom is rigged out and secured.
5. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative spelling of wythe (“single section of bricks one unit thick”).
6. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative spelling of wythe (“partition between flues in a chimney”).

Verb

1. (transitive) To bind with withes.
2. (transitive) To beat with withes.

Έννοιες

βέργα

λεπτή βέργα ιτέας

Συνώνυμα

withy

with

twig

switch

wicker

willow

subshrub

birch

mid-feather

ferule

rail

shrub

wattle

Μεταφράσεις

vimine

saz

bejuco

Wandschale

ramoscello

virgulto

vinciglio

Cydista

Heteropterys

wilgeteen

vara

vencejo

sazla bağlamak

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Προφέρεται ως (IPA)

/wɪθ/

Ετυμολογία (Αγγλικός)

Κληρονομήθηκε από Μέσα Αγγλικά: withe

Κληρονομήθηκε από Παλαιά Αγγλικά: wiþe

Συγγενές με Δανικά: vidje

Συγγενές με Σουηδικά: vidja

Συγγενές με Ισλανδικά: við

Συγγενές με Λατινικά: vītis

Συγγενές με Ρωσικά: ветвь

In summary

From Middle English withe, withthe, from Old English wiþe, wiþþe (“cord, band, thong, fetter”), from Proto-Germanic *wiþiz, *wiþjǭ (“cord, rope”), from Proto-Indo-European *wéh₁itis (“that which twines”), from *weyt- (“that which winds or bends, branch, switch”), from Proto-Indo-European *wey- (“to turn, wind, bend”). Cognate with Danish vidje (“wicker”), Swedish vidja (“withe, wicker, osier”), Icelandic við, viðja (“a withe”), Latin vītis (“vine”), Russian ветвь (vetvʹ, “branch, bough, limb”). Doublet of vice (“a type of tool, etc.”). The brickwork and chimney architecture senses may have a different etymology, see wythe.