Lemizh / English dictionary
782 lemmata in dictionary – view complete dictionary on one page (slow!) – multilingual dictionary
tàcs.
to make (dry) land (as opposed to the sea)
tÙcs. (colloquial) railway train (short form of ykhtÌcs. ⇐ ⇔ Ìkh tÙcsy. ‘ship benefitting from dry land’)
Etymology
< NLem tarsn‑a
< LMLem, MLem tarns‑yr ‘dry land, steppe’
< OLem tarns‑
< PLem *tarns‑ ‘dry out, get thirsty’, nasal-infix present of
< PIE *ters‑
doublet of tràt.
Cognates
Eng thirst, Lat terra ‘earth’