thatch

Significado (Inglés)

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.

Sinónimos

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

Traducións

chaume

paja

Dachstroh

colmo

palha

Strohdach

riet

stro

stoppie

toiture de chaume

αχυροσκεπή

zazzera

قش التسقيف

paglia per la copertura di tetti

Pronúnciase como (IPA)

/θæt͡ʃ/

Etimoloxía (Inglés)

Herdado de Middle English: thach

Herdado de Old English: þæc

Relativo a islandés: þak

Relativo a neerlandés: dak

Relativo a alemán: Dach

Relativo a noruegués: tak

Relativo a sueco: tak

Relativo a dinamarqués: tag

Relativo a latín: toga

Relativo a albanés: thak

Relativo a lituano: stogas

Relativo a grego antigo: τέγος

Herdado de Middle English: thacchen

Herdado de Old English: þeċċan

Relativo a frisón occidental: dekke

Relativo a neerlandés: dekken

Relativo a alemán: decken

Relativo a dinamarqués: tække

Relativo a sueco: 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.