thatch
pronunciation
How to pronounce thatch in British English:
UK [θætʃ]
How to pronounce thatch in American English:
US [θætʃ]
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- Noun:
- hair resembling thatched roofing material
- plant stalks used as roofing material
- a house roof made with a plant material (as straw)
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- Verb:
- cover with thatch
Word Origin
- thatch
- thatch: [OE] To thatch a building is etymologically to ‘cover’ it; the notion of ‘straw’ is a secondary development. The word goes back ultimately to the Indo-European base *tog-, *teg- ‘cover’ (source also of English detect, integument, protect, tile, and toga). Its Germanic descendant was *thak- (source of German dach ‘roof’ and English deck). From this was derived *thakjan, which gave English thatch.=> deck, detect, integument, protect, thug, tile, toga
- thatch (v.)
- late 14c., thecchen, from Old English þeccan "to cover, cover over, conceal," in late Old English specifically "cover the roof of a house," related to þæc "roof, thatching material," from Proto-Germanic *thakan (cognates: Old Saxon thekkian, Old Norse þekja, Old Frisian thekka, Middle Dutch decken, Dutch dekken, Old High German decchen, German decken "to cover"), from PIE *(s)teg- (2) "to cover" (see stegosaurus).
- thatch (n.)
- Old English þæc "roof, thatch, cover of a building," from the source of thatch (v.). Compare Old Norse þak, Old Frisian thek, Swedish tak, Danish tag, Middle Dutch, Dutch dak "roof," Old High German dah "covering, cover," German Dach "roof."
Example
- 1. Apart from a new mosque , its buildings are made of mud , stone and thatch .
- 2. That is based on the estimated market value of the fish and thatch they take to subsist , and the gums , oils and other goods they harvest for cash .
- 3. The success of silvio berlusconi 's hair transplant , four years ago , relied on the fact that the septuagenarian prime minister had enough of a thatch on the back of his head to enable some of it to be transferred to his thinning top .
- 4. The thatch was badly damaged in the storm .
- 5. They are sheltering under the thatch .