tog

See also: togʻ and tóg

English

Etymology 1

From Old French togue, from Latin toga (“cloak, mantle”). It started being used by thieves and vagabonds with the noun togman, which was an old slang word for "cloak". By the 1700s the noun "tog" was used as a short form for "togman", and it was being used for "coat", and before 1800 the word started to mean "clothing". The verb "tog" came out after a short period of time and became a popular word which meant to dress up. The unit of thermal resistance was coined in the 1940s after the clo, a unit of thermal insulation of clothing, which was itself derived from clothes.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɑɡ/
• IPA^(key): /tɒɡ/
• Rhymes: -ɒɡ

Noun

tog (plural togs)

1. A cloak.
2. A coat.
   • 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.

3. A unit of thermal resistance, being ten times the temperature difference (in °C) between the two surfaces of a material when the flow of heat is equal to one watt per square metre

Derived terms

• (clothes): toggery
• (unit of thermal resistance): megatog (rare, humorously hyperbolic)

Verb

1. (transitive) To dress (often with up or out).
   • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 7, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

     “[…] if you call my duds a ‘livery’ again there'll be trouble. It's bad enough to go around togged out like a life saver on a drill day, but I can stand that 'cause I'm paid for it. […]”

Etymology 2

Adverb

tog (not comparable)

1. (knitting) Abbreviation of together.
   • 2012, Kay Meadors, Knitting for a Cure (page 34)

     Row 1 (Right side): Slip 1, K1, K2 tog, YO, K 10, (K2 tog, YO) twice, K3.

Anagrams

• -got-, GTO, GoT, OTG, TGO, got

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Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *tāga, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teg (“to cover”). Compare Greek τέγη (tégi, “roof”), Old Irish tech (“house”), Lithuanian stiégti (“to thatch a roof”).

Noun

tog f (plural togje, definite togu, definite plural togjet)

1. heap, pile

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Danish

Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Middle Low German toge, toch, from Old Saxon *tugi, from Proto-Germanic *tugiz. Cognate with Dutch teug, German Zug, Old English tyge. The sense "train" is derived from German Zug.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɔːɡ/, [tˢɔwˀ]

Noun

tog n (singular definite toget, plural indefinite tog or toge)

1. train
2. expedition

Inflection

Declension of tog

neuter gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	tog	toget	tog toge	togene
genitive	togs	togets	togs toges	togenes

Etymology 2

See tage (“to take”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /toː/, [tˢoːˀ]

Verb

tog

1. past of tage

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Dutch

Adverb

tog

1. Misspelling of toch.

   Hij kwam tog? ― He came, didn't he?

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Faroese

Etymology

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʰoː/

Noun

tog n (genitive singular togs, plural tog)

1. (hemp) rope
2. long hair of a sheep skin

Declension

Declension of tog
n4	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	tog	togið	tog	togini
accusative	tog	togið	tog	togini
dative	tog, togi	tognum	togum	togunum
genitive	togs	togsins	toga	toganna

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Icelandic

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʰɔːɣ/
• Rhymes: -ɔːɣ

Noun

tog n (genitive singular togs, nominative plural tog)

1. the act of pulling
2. rope

Declension

declension of tog

n-s	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	tog	togið	tog	togin
accusative	tog	togið	tog	togin
dative	togi	toginu	togum	togunum
genitive	togs	togsins	toga	toganna

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

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Borrowed from German Zug (sense 1), and German Low German tog, toch (sense 2)

Noun

tog n (definite singular toget, indefinite plural tog, definite plural toga or togene)

1. (rail transport) a train (line of connected cars or carriages, often hauled by a locomotive)
2. a procession or parade

   17. mai-toget ― the 17th of May parade

Derived terms

Terms derived from tog

• ekspresstog
• felttog
• fjerntog
• godstog
• høyhastighetstog
• korstog
• lokaltog

• nattog
• passasjertog
• persontog
• regiontog
• togekspeditør
• togfører

• togreise
• togsett
• togtid
• togtur
• togvert
• vogntog

References

• “tog” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

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Borrowed from German Zug.

Noun

tog n (definite singular toget, indefinite plural tog, definite plural toga)

1. (rail transport) a train (as above)
2. a procession or parade

Derived terms

Terms derived from tog

• ekspresstog
• felttog
• fjerntog
• godstog
• lokaltog

• nattog
• passasjertog
• persontog
• regiontog
• togekspeditør

• togførar
• togsett
• togtid
• togtur
• vogntog

Etymology 2

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From Old Norse tog, from Proto-Germanic *taugō.

Alternative forms

• tau (also Norwegian Bokmål)

Noun

tog n (definite singular toget, indefinite plural tog, definite plural toga)

1. a rope

   Kutt toget!

   Cut the rope!

References

• “tog” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Old Irish

Alternative forms

• toga

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtoɣ/

Verb

tog

1. second-person singular imperative of do·goa

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
tog	thog	tog pronounced with /d(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish tócbáil, verbal noun of do·fócaib (“lifts up, raises; takes, takes up; brings; takes away, lifts off, removes; raises, sets up (of stones, buildings, etc.); exalts, uplifts, elevates, extols; rears, brings up, fosters; exacts, levies, raises (a tribute or tax); awakens, rouses, excites”).

Verb

tog (past thog, future togaidh, verbal noun togail, past participle togta)

1. lift, raise, rear, haul, pick up, hoist
2. build, erect
3. brew, distil
4. carry
5. take away
6. excite, stir, cheer up, rouse
7. exact (as tribute)
8. rear, educate, rear, bring up (a child)
9. hoist, weigh
10. extol
11. (agriculture) make sheaves of corn

Derived terms

• dian-thograch (“ambitious”)
• tog dealbh (“photograph”) (verb)
• tog fianais (“demonstrate”)
• togarrach (“desirous, keen, wishful; inviting, enticing, alluring; stimulating”)

 

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “do·fócaib”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “tócbáil”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Edward Dwelly (1911) “tog”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[2], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN

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Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *tǫgъ. Cognate with Czech tuhý

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tóːk/

Adjective

tọ̑g (comparative bȍlj tọ̑g, superlative nȁjbolj tọ̑g)

1. rigid, stiff

Inflection

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Hard
	masculine	feminine	neuter
nom. sing.	tóg	tóga	tógo
singular
	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	tóg ind tógi def	tóga	tógo
genitive	tógega	tóge	tógega
dative	tógemu	tógi	tógemu
accusative	nominativeinan or genitiveanim	tógo	tógo
locative	tógem	tógi	tógem
instrumental	tógim	tógo	tógim
dual
	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	tóga	tógi	tógi
genitive	tógih	tógih	tógih
dative	tógima	tógima	tógima
accusative	tóga	tógi	tógi
locative	tógih	tógih	tógih
instrumental	tógima	tógima	tógima
plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	tógi	tóge	tóga
genitive	tógih	tógih	tógih
dative	tógim	tógim	tógim
accusative	tóge	tóge	tóga
locative	tógih	tógih	tógih
instrumental	tógimi	tógimi	tógimi

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Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tuːɡ/

Verb

tog

1. (deprecated template usage) past tense of ta.
2. (deprecated template usage) past tense of taga.

Anagrams

• got.