Noun: tacha
Gender: f
Hyphenation: ta‧cha
| Singular f | tacha |
| Plural f | tachas |
Sample Sentences
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Ahora, en dos mesas a la sombra del gran nogal a un lado de la casa, disfrutaban el clima perfecto para comer y luego hacer la sobremesa en el exterior, tomando café y saboreando la calabaza en tacha y las bolitas de leche de cabra quemada con nuez que doña Sinforosa había elaborado para la ocasión. (Now, at two tables in the shade of the large walnut tree on one side of the house, they enjoyed perfect weather for eating and then relaxing at the table outside, drinking coffee and savoring the pumpkin in tacha''' syrup and the little balls of caramelized goat's milk with walnuts that Mrs. Sinforosa had prepared for the occasion.) [2017, Sofía Segovia, El Murmullo de las Abejas, 1st edition, Mexico City, Mexico: Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, →ISBN, page 242:]
Nouns inflected like tacha
enlatadora,
gencianilla,
paletada,
interneurona,
palestra,
quinacridona,
uridina,
bacinilla,
sopaipilla,
histerectomía,
desaveniencia,
baicaleína,
mesanina,
delicatessen,
hipertrigliceridemia,
teleasistencia,
sequía,
serifa,
seroja,
sesera, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Borrowed from Vulgar Latin *tacca, *tecca, of Germanic origin, from Gothic 𐍄𐌰𐌹𐌺𐌽𐍃 (taikns, “mark, sign”), from Proto-Germanic *taiknaz, *taikniz (“sign, mark”), from Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ-.
2. Influenced by forms related to Frankish *stakjan, *stakkjan and Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌺𐍃 (staks, “mark”). See attacher. Cognate with Old High German zeihhan (“sign, symbol, feature”), Old English tācn (“sign, marker”). More at token. See: Gothic Nouns '
𐍄𐌰𐌹𐌺𐌽𐍃', Gothic Nouns '
𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌺𐍃'.
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