tach

See also: Tach and tách

English

Etymology 1

Clipping of tachometer

Noun

tach (plural taches)

1. (informal) Tachometer

Etymology 2

Backslang for hat (with /tʃ/ substituted for the /h/).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tætʃ/
• Rhymes: -ætʃ

Noun

tach (plural taches)

1. (obsolete, costermongers) A hat.
   • c. 1864, Alfred Peck Stevens, “The Chickaleary Cove”, in Farmer, John Stephen, editor, Musa Pedestris‎^[1], published 1896, page 161:

     I have a rorty gal, also a knowing pal, / And merrily together we jog on, / I doesn't care a flatch, as long as I've a tach, / Some pannum for my chest, and a tog on.

Etymology 3

Noun

tach (uncountable)

1. (medicine, colloquial) Tachycardia.

   wide-complex tach

   V-tach

Anagrams

• ACTH, CHAT, Cath, cath, chat

---

Cimbrian

Alternative forms

• dach (Sette Comuni)

Etymology

From Middle High German dach, from Old High German dah, from Proto-Germanic *þaką (“roof, cover”). Cognate with German Dach, English thack.

Noun

tach f

1. (Luserna) roof

Declension

Declension of tach – 2nd declension

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	an	de	tach	de	dèchar
accusative	an	de	tach	de	dèchar
dative	anara	dar	dèchar	in	dècharn

References

• Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

---

Middle English

Etymology 1

Unknown. Perhaps related to trasch or Modern English tatch (“to set grass on fire”).

Noun

tach (uncountable)

1. touchwood, tinder

Alternative forms

• tache, tasch, tasche, tasshe

References

• “tach(e, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

From Old French tache (“stain, spot”), of uncertain origin; perhaps a native derivation, or borrowed from Gothic.

Noun

tach (plural taches)

1. characteristic
2. disfigurement, blemish
3. symbol, sign

Alternative forms

• tacche, tachche, tatche, tak, tech, teche, tecche, tetche

Descendants

• English: tache, tatch
• Scots: tache
• ⇒? English: tetchy

References

• “tach(e, n.(3).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 3

Verb

tach (third-person singular simple present tacheth, present participle tachinge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle taught)

1. Alternative form of techen