English

Proper noun

Taos

1. An indigenous, Tiwa-speaking people of New Mexico who inhabit a pueblo there.
2. The pueblo they inhabit, which, being about thousand years old, is one of the oldest continuously inhabited sites in the United States.
3. The Kiowa-Tanoan lect they speak, which is either closely related to or a dialect of northern Tiwa.
4. The town of Taos, south of Taos Pueblo, in New Mexico.
5. A city/town in Missouri.

Translations

See also

• Wiktionary's coverage of Taos terms

Anagrams

• as to
• oast
• oats
• SOTA
• stoa

English

Noun

taos

1. plural of tao

Finnish

Etymology

Derived from the verb takoa ‎(“to forge”).

Noun

taos

1. That which has been forged, any product of the work of a blacksmith.

Declension

Anagrams

• Atso, osat, osta, otsa, sato, sota, taso

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish táes, from Proto-Celtic *taisto-, from Proto-Indo-European *teh₂is-t-.^[1]

Compare Old Church Slavonic тѣсто ‎(těsto, “dough”) and, with a different suffix, Old High German theismo ‎(“dough”).

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /t̪ˠeːsˠ/
• (Connacht, Ulster) IPA^(key): /t̪ˠiːsˠ/

Noun

taos m ‎(genitive singular taois)

1. dough
2. paste

Declension

Synonyms

• leafaos

Derived terms

• taos fiacla ‎(“toothpaste”)
• taos géar ‎(“sourdough”)

Mutation

References

1. ↑ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, ISBN 978-90-04-17336-1, page 374