Tod

== English == === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /tɒd/ (General American) IPA(key): /tɑd/ Rhymes: -ɒd === Proper noun === Tod (colloquial) Todmorden. Alternative form of Todd. === Anagrams === do't, Dot, DTO, OTD, ODT, dot, DoT, DOT == German == === Alternative forms === Todt (obsolete) === Etymology === From Middle High German tōt, from Old High German tōd, from Proto-West Germanic *dauþu, from Proto-Germanic *dauþuz. Compare Old Saxon dōth, Dutch dood, English death, Danish død. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /toːt/ Homophone: tot Rhymes: -oːt === Noun === Tod m (strong, genitive Todes or Tods, plural Tode) death ==== Usage notes ==== Like Leben, this noun is usually used with the definite article. Tod is fairly exceptional in that, even beyond set expressions such as zum Tode verurteilt (“sentenced to death”) or sich zu Tode langweilen (“to be bored to death”), the archaic dative -e is still applied productively to some extent. Thus, seit seinem Tode is possible in formal style alongside seit seinem Tod, without sounding odd, as would be the case with most other nouns outside of fixed expressions. This does not apply to compounds, such as Freitod, however. (Another simplex noun that still sometimes occurs with the dative -e is Krieg (“war”).) The plural Tode is rare. Usually the plural of Todesfall (“an individual death”) is used, for example to report on the number of deaths in an incident or during a time period. ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== === Further reading === “Tod” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache “Tod” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon “Tod” in Duden online Tod on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de