taw (v.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict[taw 词源字典]
"to prepare" (leather), from Old English tawian "prepare, make ready, make; cultivate," also "harass, insult, outrage" to do, make," from Proto-Germanic *tawjan (cognates: Old Frisian tawa, Old Saxon toian, Middle Dutch tauwen, Dutch touwen, Old High German zouwen "to prepare," Old High German zawen "to succeed," Gothic taujan "to make, prepare"), from Proto-Germanic root *taw- "to make, manufacture" (compare tool (n.)).[taw etymology, taw origin, 英语词源]
taw (n.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
"a game at marbles," 1709, of unknown origin.