teach
See also: Teach
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tiːt͡ʃ/
- Rhymes: -iːtʃ
Audio (US) (file)
Etymology 1
From Middle English techen, from Old English tǣċan (“to show, declare, demonstrate; teach, instruct, train; assign, prescribe, direct; warn; persuade”), from Proto-West Germanic *taikijan, from Proto-Germanic *taikijaną (“to show”), from Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ- (“to show”).
Cognate with Scots tech, teich (“to teach”), German zeigen (“to show, point out”), zeihen (“accuse, blame”), Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐍄𐌴𐌹𐌷𐌰𐌽 (gateihan, “to announce, declare, tell, show, display”), Latin dīcō (“speak, say, tell”), Ancient Greek δείκνυμι (deíknumi, “show, point out, explain, teach”). More at token.
Verb
teach (third-person singular simple present teaches, present participle teaching, simple past and past participle taught)
- (ditransitive) To pass on knowledge to.
- Can you teach me to sew? Can you teach sewing to me?
- Synonyms: educate, instruct
- (intransitive, stative) To pass on knowledge generally, especially as one's profession; to act as a teacher.
- She used to teach at university.
- Antonym: learn
- (ditransitive) To cause (someone) to learn or understand (something).
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., OCLC 222716698:
- The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again; […]. Now she had come to look upon the matter in its true proportions, and her anticipation of a possible chance of teaching him a lesson was a pleasure to behold.
- 2013 September-October, Rob Dorit, “Making Life from Scratch”, in American Scientist:
- Deep Blue taught us a great deal about the power of the human mind precisely because it could not reproduce the intuitive and logical leaps of Kasparov’s mind. A truly synthetic cell, built from scratch or even from preexisting components, will be a cell without ancestry, and it, too, will teach us a great deal about the underlying complexities of life without actually reproducing them.
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- (ditransitive) To cause to know the disagreeable consequences of some action.
- I'll teach you to make fun of me!
- (obsolete, transitive) To show (someone) the way; to guide, conduct; to point, indicate.
- ‘The bliss is there’, mumbled the old man and taught to Heaven.
- c1450, Mandeville's Travelsː
- Blessed God of might (the) most.. teach us the right way unto that bliss that lasteth aye.
- c1460, Cursor Mundiː
- Till thy sweet sun uprose, thou keptest all our lay, how we should keep our belief there taught'st thou us the way.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter V, in Le Morte Darthur, book VI:
- So thus within a whyle as they thus talked the nyghte passed / and the daye shone / and thenne syre launcelot armed hym / and took his hors / and they taught hym to the Abbaye and thyder he rode within the space of two owrys
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Conjugation
Conjugation of teach
| infinitive | (to) teach | ||
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| present tense | past tense | ||
| 1st-person singular | teach | taught | |
| 2nd-person singular | taught, taughtest† | ||
| 3rd-person singular | teaches | taught | |
| plural | teach | ||
| subjunctive | teach | taught | |
| imperative | teach | — | |
| participles | teaching | taught | |
†Archaic or obsolete.
Derived terms
Terms derived from teach (verb)
- give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime
- reteach
- teachable
- teacher
- teacherly
- teaching
- teach someone a lesson
- teach who's boss
- that'll teach someone
- unteachable
Translations
to pass on knowledge
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to pass on one's knowledge as one's profession
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to cause to learn or understand
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obsolete: to show the way
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References
- The Middle English Dictionary
- NED
Etymology 2
Clipping of teacher.
Noun
teach (plural teaches)
- (informal, usually as a term of address) teacher
Anagrams
- 'tache, Tache, Taché, Tâche, chate, cheat, he-cat, tache, theca
Irish
Alternative forms
- tigh dative; has replaced the nominative in Munster Irish
- toigh (Ulster) dative; replaced the nominative in East Ulster.
Etymology
From Old Irish tech, from Proto-Celtic *tegos, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tég-os (“cover, roof”). Cognate with English thatch.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tʲax/
- (Cois Fharraige) IPA(key): /tʲæːx/
Noun
teach m (genitive singular tí, nominative plural tithe)
- house
Declension
Declension of teach
Second declension
Bare forms
| Forms with the definite article
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- Alternative genitive singular: tighe, toighe
- Alternative dative singular: toigh
- Alternative plural: tithí (Ulster), titheachaí (Connemara)
Derived terms
- bean tí
- buachaill tí
- cailín tí
- cruinnteach
- proinnteach
- teach agus talamh
- teach allais
- teach báicéireachta
- teach bainise
- teach bainne
- teach beag
- teach beorach
- teach bia
- teach búistéara
- teach caife
- teach cairte
- teach cathrach
- teach ceann slinne
- teach ceann tuí
- teach cearc
- teach ceoldráma
- teach coirí
- teach cóiste
- teach coiteora
- teach coscartha
- teach cuartaíochta
- teach Dé
- teach deice
- teach dídine
- teach droichid
- teach gealt
- teach geata
- teach gloine
- teachín
- teach itheacháin
- teach leanna
- teach lóistín
- teach moncaí
- teach mór
- teach na mbocht
- teach níocháin
- teach óil
- teach ósta
- teach parlaiminte
- teach pictiúr
- teach pobail
- teach siopa
- teach solais
- teach spéire
- teach sraithe
- teach stiúrach
- teach tábhairne
- teach tábhairne
- teach talún
- teach te
- teach tíre
- teach tráchtála
- teach tuaithe
Mutation
| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| teach | theach | dteach |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “teach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904), “teaċ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 724
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “tech, teg”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Entries containing “teach” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
- Entries containing “teach” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
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Etymology
From Middle English techen, from Old English tǣċan, from Proto-West Germanic *taikijan.
Verb
teach (simple past teigkh or teight, past participle ee-teight)
- to hand or give
- 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:
- Teach mee.
- Hand to me.
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References
- Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 71