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 teccan "to cover, cover over, conceal," in late Old English specifically "cover the roof of a house," related to t?c "roof, thatching material," from Proto-Germanic *thakan (cognates: Old Saxon thekkian, Old Norse tekja, 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 t?c "roof, thatch, cover of a building," from the source of thatch (v.). Compare Old Norse tak, Old Frisian thek, Swedish tak, Danish tag, Middle Dutch, Dutch dak "roof," Old High German dah "covering, cover," German Dach "roof."
雙語例句
1. Teddy ran thick fingers through his unruly thatch of hair.
特迪用自己的粗手指頭捋了一下濃密蓬亂的頭發。
來自柯林斯例句
2. Thatch is naturally warm in winter and cool in summer.
茅草料天生冬暖夏涼。
來自柯林斯例句
3. a roof made of thatch
茅草屋頂
來自《權威詞典》
4. They would live in a small house with a green door and a new thatch.
他們將住在一所新苫頂的綠門小房子里。
來自柯林斯例句
5. They lit a torch and set fire to the chapel's thatch.