tuft
English
/tʌft/
noun
Definitions
- A bunch of feathers, grass or hair, etc., held together at the base.
- A cluster of threads drawn tightly through upholstery, a mattress or a quilt, etc., to secure and strengthen the padding.
- A small clump of trees or bushes.
- (historical) A gold tassel on the cap worn by titled undergraduates at English universities.
- (historical) A person entitled to wear such a tassel.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English tuft derived from Old French touffe derived from Latin tufa derived from Proto-Germanic *þūbǭ (tube).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*þūbǭ
Gloss
tube
Concept
Semantic Field
Modern world
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- hunter English
- hunting English
- purple English
- purpletuft English
- tufter English
- tufthunter English
- tufthunting English
- tuftily English
- tuftiness English
- tuftless English
- tufty English
- *tufera Latin
- *tūbellum Latin
- stypa Latin
- tuberosus Latin
- tufa Latin
- tūber Latin
- truffe French
- τύφη Ancient Greek
- *tewh₂- Proto-Indo-European
- *þūbaz Proto-Germanic
- *þūbǭ Proto-Germanic
- tuva Swedish
- tuvsnäppa Swedish
- tue Norwegian Nynorsk
- þufbære Old English
- þūf Old English
- tuft Middle English
- þúfa Old Norse
- touffe Old French
- tubero Esperanto
- tòfona Catalan, Valencian
- mauraþúfa Icelandic
- þúfa Icelandic
- þúfutittlingur Icelandic
- túgva Faroese
- tufë Albanian