teach

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English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tiːt͡ʃ/
• Rhymes: -iːtʃ

Etymology 1

From Middle English techen, from Old English tǣċan (“to show, declare, demonstrate; teach, instruct, train; assign, prescribe, direct; warn; persuade”), from Proto-West Germanic *taikijan, from Proto-Germanic *taikijaną (“to show”), from Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ- (“to show”).

Cognate with Scots tech, teich (“to teach”), German zeigen (“to show, point out”), zeihen (“accuse, blame”), Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐍄𐌴𐌹𐌷𐌰𐌽 (gateihan, “to announce, declare, tell, show, display”), Latin dīcō (“speak, say, tell”), Ancient Greek δείκνυμι (deíknumi, “show, point out, explain, teach”), Sanskrit दिशति (diśati, “to point out, show, tell, teach”). More at token.

Verb

teach (third-person singular simple present teaches, present participle teaching, simple past and past participle taught)

1. (ditransitive) To pass on knowledge to.

   Synonyms: educate, instruct

2. (intransitive, stative) To pass on knowledge generally, especially as one's profession; to act as a teacher.

   Antonym: learn

3. (ditransitive) To cause (someone) to learn or understand (something).
4. (ditransitive) To cause to know the disagreeable consequences of some action.

5. (obsolete, transitive) To show (someone) the way; to guide, conduct; to point, indicate.
   • c1450, Mandeville's Travelsː

     Blessed God of might (the) most.. teach us the right way unto that bliss that lasteth aye.

   • c1460, Cursor Mundiː

     Till thy sweet sun uprose, thou keptest all our lay, how we should keep our belief there taught'st thou us the way.

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Translations

References

• The Middle English Dictionary
• NED

Etymology 2

Clipping of teacher.

Noun

teach (plural teaches)

1. (informal, usually as a term of address) teacher

Anagrams

• 'tache, Tache, Taché, Tâche, chate, cheat, he-cat, tache, theca

Irish

Alternative forms

• tigh (dative, has replaced the nominative in Munster Irish)
• toigh (Ulster, dative, has replaced the nominative in East Ulster)

Etymology

From Old Irish tech, from Proto-Celtic *tegos, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tég-os (“cover, roof”). Cognate with English thatch.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʲax/
• (Cois Fharraige) IPA^(key): /tʲæːx/

Noun

teach m (genitive singular tí, nominative plural tithe)

1. house

Declension

• Alternative genitive singular: tighe, toighe
• Alternative dative singular: toigh
• Alternative plural: tithí (Ulster), titheachaí (Connemara)

Derived terms

Mutation

References

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “teach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “teaċ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 724
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “teach”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “teach”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024

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Etymology

From Middle English techen, from Old English tǣċan, from Proto-West Germanic *taikijan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tiːt͡ʃ/

Verb

teach (simple past teight, past participle ee-teight)

1. to hand or give

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 71