different between claw vs talo

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kl??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /kl?/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /kl?/
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

From Middle English clawe, from Old English clawu, from Proto-Germanic *klaw?. Compare West Frisian klau, Dutch klauw, German Klaue, Danish klo, Norwegian klo, and Swedish klo.

Noun

claw (plural claws)

1. A curved, pointed horny nail on each digit of the foot of a mammal, reptile, or bird.
2. A foot equipped with such.
3. The pincer (chela) of a crustacean or other arthropod.
4. A mechanical device resembling a claw, used for gripping or lifting.
5. (botany) A slender appendage or process, formed like a claw, such as the base of petals of the pink.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Gray to this entry?)

6. (juggling) The act of catching a ball overhand.

Derived terms

• claw hammer
• declaw
• get one's claws into
• tiger's claw

Translations

Further reading

• claw on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

From Middle English clawen, from Old English clawan, cl?wan, *cl?n, clawian, from Proto-Germanic *klawjan?.

Verb

claw (third-person singular simple present claws, present participle clawing, simple past and past participle clawed)

1. To scratch or to tear at.

   • Using her hands like windshield wipers, she tried to flick snow away from her mouth. When she clawed at her chest and neck, the crumbs maddeningly slid back onto her face. She grew claustrophobic.

2. To use the claws to seize, to grip.
3. To use the claws to climb.
4. (juggling) To perform a claw catch.
5. To move with one's fingertips.
6. (obsolete) To relieve uneasy feeling, such as an itch, by scratching; hence, to humor or flatter, to court someone.
   • 1599, Much Ado About Nothing, by William Shakespeare, Act 1 Scene 3

     I cannot hide what I am: I must be sad when I have cause, and smile at no man's jests; eat when I have stomach, and wait for no man's leisure; sleep when I am drowsy, and tend on no man's business; laugh when I am merry, and claw no man in his humour.

   • 1603, Philemon Holland (translator), The Philosophie, commonly called, the Morals (originally by Plutarch)

     Rich men they claw, sooth up and flatter: the poore they contemne and despise

7. (obsolete) To rail at; to scold.

   • In the aforesaid preamble, the king fairly claweth the great monasteries, wherein, saith he, religion, thanks be to God, is right well kept and observed; though he claweth them soon after in another acceptation.

8. (figuratively, transitive, dated) To flatter; to fawn on (a person).

Translations

Derived terms

• claw me, claw thee

Anagrams

• cawl

Middle English

Noun

claw

1. Alternative form of clawe

Catalan

Verb

talo

1. first-person singular present indicative form of talar

Finnish

(index ta)

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *talo (“farm; house”). Possibly related to talas (“shelter for boats; fish drying hut”). Cognates include Estonian talu (“farm”); Northern Sami dállu (“house; farm”) is a Finnic loan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?lo/, [?t??lo?]
• Rhymes: -?lo
• Syllabification: ta?lo

Noun

talo

1. house
2. building

   Synonyms: rakennus, pytinki

3. (now uncommon) farm, homestead

   Synonyms: maatila, tila, farmi

Declension

Derived terms

Compounds

References

Anagrams

• laot, lato, loat, olat, tola

Galician

Etymology

From Latin thallus, from Ancient Greek ?????? (thallós).

Noun

talo m (plural talos)

1. (botany) stem, shaft

Further reading

• “talo” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Ingrian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *talo, borrowed from a Baltic language. Cognates include Finnish talo and Estonian talu.

Pronunciation

• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /?t?loi?/ (phonemic spelling: taloi)
• Hyphenation: ta?lo

Noun

talo (genitive talon, partitive talloa)

1. house

Declension

References

• V. I. Junus (1936) I?oran Keelen Grammatikka?^[1], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 61
• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 570

Italian

Etymology

From Latin t?lus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ta.lo/
• Rhymes: -alo
• Hyphenation: tà?lo

Adjective

talo (feminine tala, masculine plural tali, feminine plural tale)

1. (medicine, of a foot) Characterized by dorsal hyperflexion.

Related terms

• talismo
• tallone

Anagrams

• alto, lato

References

• talo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Etymology 1

Adapted from Middle French talon, Italian tallone as t?lus +? -?; also as +-?nus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ta?.lo?/, [?t?ä???o?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ta.lo/, [?t???l?]

Alternative forms

• talonus

Noun

t?l? m (genitive t?l?nis); third declension

1. (Medieval Latin, anatomy) heel

   Synonym: calx

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Middle English tallow. 13th century.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ta.lo?/, [?t?ä??o?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ta.lo/, [?t???l?]

Noun

t?l? m (genitive t?l?nis); third declension

1. (Anglo-Latin) tallow

   Synonym: s?bum

Declension

Third-declension noun.

References

• talo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Maranao

Verb

talo

1. to call

Derived terms

• mananalo

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin thallus, from Ancient Greek ?????? (thallós).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ta.lu/
• Hyphenation: ta?lo

Noun

talo m (plural talos)

1. (botany) stem, shaft

Further reading

• “talo” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Samoan

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *talo.

Noun

talo

1. taro

See also

• 'oso

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?talo/, [?t?a.lo]
• Hyphenation: ta?lo

Etymology 1

From Latin thallus, from Ancient Greek ?????? (thallós).

Noun

talo m (plural talos)

1. (botany) stem, shaft

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

talo

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of talar.

Further reading

• “talo” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Tagalog

Etymology 1

Noun

talo

1. (obsolete) dispute; argument; quarrel

Usage notes

No longer used on its own except as part of derived terms.

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Proto-Philippine *talu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *talu.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ta?lo
• IPA^(key): /?talo/, [?t?lo]

Adjective

talo

1. defeated; beaten; surpassed

Noun

talo

1. defeat; loss

   Antonym: panalo

2. loser

Derived terms

References

• Juan de Noceda; Pablo de Sanlucár (1613) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala?^[2] (in Spanish), published 1860, page 320

Further reading

• “talo” in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2018.

Tongan

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *talo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta.lo/

Noun

talo

1. taro

Võro

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *talo.

Noun

talo (genitive talo, partitive tallo)

1. farm, farmstead

Inflection

Welsh

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /?tal?/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /?ta?l?/, /?tal?/

Verb

talo

1. (literary) third-person singular subjunctive of talu

Mutation