An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 893
/An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language
An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 893
TYTE, _adj._ Direct, straight, S. B.
_Ross._
Sw. _taett_, close, thick.
TYTE, TYT, _adv._ Soon.
_Barbour._
Isl. _t.i.tt_, ready.
~t.i.tly~, _adv._ Speedily.
_Sir Tristrem._
~Tyttar~, _adv._ Rather, sooner.
_Barbour._
Isl. _tidari_, compar. of _tid-r_, frequentior.
t.i.tHING, t.i.tHAND, _s._ Tidings.
_Houlate._
Belg. _tijding_, Isl. _tidende_, id.
t.i.tGANDIS. L. _t.i.thandis_, as in MS. tidings.
_Houlate._
_To_ t.i.tLE, _v. n._ To prate idly, S.
_Melvil._
Su. G. _twetalen_, double-tongued.
~t.i.tlar~, ~t.i.ttillar~, _s._ A tatler.
_Henrysone._
t.i.tLENE, t.i.tLING, _s._ The hedge-sparrow.
Isl. _tytling-r_, id.
_Compl. S._
t.i.tTY, _s._ Dimin. of _sister_, S.
_Ritson._
t.i.tTY, _adj._
1. Coming in gusts, S. B., from _t.i.t_, a stroke.
V. ~Tyte~.
2. Testy, ill-humoured, Renfr.
~t.i.ttish~, _adj._ Captious, testy, S. B.
t.i.tTS, _s. pl._ A disease in the dugs of cows.
Teut. _t.i.tte_, udder.
_Montgomerie._
t.i.tUP, _s._ A trigger.
_b.e.l.l.e.n.den._
From _t.i.t_, a tap, and the prep. _up_.
TO, _adv._ Too, A. S. id.
_Barbour._
TO, _adv._ Preceding a _v. part._ or _adj._ quite, entirely, very.
_Wyntown._
_To_ is prefixed to many A. S. words, and has various powers; _to-faegen_, perlaetus, _to-braecan_, disrumpere, _to-cwys-an_, quatere, dissipare.
TO, shut. _The door is tue_, S.