eldertongue

Old English · noun

tesu

Part of speech
noun, masculine / neuter
Declension
strong wa-stem
IPA
/ˈte.su/
[ˈte.zu]
Syllables
ˈte · su (2 syllables)

Meaning

  1. hurt, injury, damage

  2. wrong, wrongdoing, fraud

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *taswi. Further etymology unknown. Perhaps related to Old English tǣsan (“to tear up, pull apart, tease”). Alternatively, perhaps from Proto-West Germanic *tehsu, *tehswō n (“the right, right side”), related to Old High German zeso n (“the right, right side”), though the sense evolution is obscure.

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