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tøj

Pronunciation: /ˈtɔj/

“tøj” is a Danish word. Its 8 meanings in English:

noun

  1. fabric, material
  2. cloth, clothes, clothing
  3. tool, mechanism
  4. means of transport, mode of transport
  5. body part with a certain function
  6. articles of everyday use
  7. material for knitting, needle work and such
  8. something unpleasant

Etymology

From Middle Low German tüg (“tool, clothes”), from Old Saxon *tiug, from Proto-West Germanic *teug, from Proto-Germanic *teugą, *teugą, *tiugiją (“stuff, gear, device for pulling”). Cognates include English toy and German Zeug (“stuff, gear, fabric”).

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