thatch

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) Straw, rushes, or similar, used for making or covering the roofs of buildings, or of stacks of hay or grain.
2. (Caribbean, countable, uncountable) Any of several kinds of palm, the leaves of which are used for thatching.
3. (countable, uncountable) A buildup of cut grass, stolons or other material on the soil in a lawn.
4. (broadly, countable, uncountable) Any straw-like material, such as a person's hair.

Verb

To cover the roof with straw, reed, leaves, etc.

Concepts

chaume

toiture de chaume

Synonymes

roof

straw

grass

roof covering

cover

haulm

covering

thatched roof

shack

shingle

square

thatching

thatched house

thatch roof

be roofed with

cover with roofing

straw roofing

cover fully

blade of grass

straw roof

bunch

cover up

cupola

dome

herbs

mulch

rushes

Traductions

paja

colmo

Dachstroh

palha

Strohdach

colmar

αχυροσκεπή

caña

paglia per la copertura di tetti

zazzera

riet

قش التسقيف

stoppie

stro

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/θæt͡ʃ/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: thach

Hérité de ancien anglais: þæc

Appartenant à islandais: þak

Appartenant à néerlandais: dak

Appartenant à allemand: Dach

Appartenant à norvégien: tak

Appartenant à suédois: tak

Appartenant à danois: tag

Appartenant à latin: toga

Appartenant à albanais: thak

Appartenant à lituanien: stogas

Appartenant à grec ancien: τέγος

Hérité de moyen anglais: thacchen

Hérité de ancien anglais: þeċċan

Appartenant à frison occidental: dekke

Appartenant à néerlandais: dekken

Appartenant à allemand: decken

Appartenant à danois: tække

Appartenant à suédois: täcka

In summary

Variant of thack, from Middle English thache, thach, from Old English þæc (“roof-covering”), from Proto-West Germanic *þak, from Proto-Germanic *þaką (“covering”), from (o-grade of) Proto-Indo-European *(s)teg- (“cover”).
Cognate with Icelandic þak, Dutch dak, German Dach, Norwegian tak, Swedish tak, Danish tag; and with Latin toga, Albanian thak (“awn, beard, pin, peg, tassel, fringe”), Lithuanian stogas (“roof”), Welsh to (“roof”). Related to Ancient Greek τέγος (tégos, “roof”) and στέγη (stégē, “roof”). See also English deech, deck.