tiller

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• rhymes with -ɪlə(ɹ)
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈtɪlə/
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• General-American: /ˈtɪlɚ/
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• CMU ARPABET: T IH1 L ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Capitalization of tiller

From Middle English tilier; equivalent to till + -er.

From Middle English telȝre, telgra, from Old English telgor, telgra, telgre ("twig, branch, shoot") (also telga, telge (whence tillow)), from Proto-West Germanic *telguʀ, from Proto-Germanic *telguz (“twig, branch”), from Proto-Indo-European *delgh- (“to split, divide, cut, carve”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Tälge (“sapling”), Dutch telg (“descendant, scion, offshoot, shoot”), Dutch Low Saxon telge (“twig, branch”), German Zelge (“twig, branch, bough”), Swedish telning (“branch, scion, sapling”), Icelandic tág (“willow-twig”).

From Middle English teler, from Anglo-Norman telier (“beam used in weaving”), from Medieval Latin telarium, from Latin tēla (“web”).

89 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: زَارِع (zāriʕ) — person
• Bulgarian: орач (orač) — person
• Czech: oráč — person
• Danish: landmand — person
• Dutch: boer — person
• Dutch: landman — person
• Estonian: põldur — person
• Estonian: maaviljeleja — person
• Finnish: maanviljelijä — person
• French: fermier — person
• French: paysan — person
• Hungarian: kapás — person
• Hungarian: kapáló ember — person
• Italian: aratore — person
• Spanish: campesino — person
• Bulgarian: култиватор (kultivator) — machine
• Czech: kypřič — machine
• Czech: kultivátor — machine
• Dutch: graafmachine — machine
• Estonian: kobesti — machine
• Estonian: muldaja — machine
• Estonian: kultivaator — machine
• Finnish: kultivaattori — machine
• French: excavatrice — machine
• German: Fräse — machine
• German: Motorpflug — machine
• Hungarian: kapálógép — machine
• Italian: aratro — machine
• Spanish: arado cincel — machine
• Spanish: cultivador — machine
• Spanish: motoarado — machine
• Swedish: jordfräs — machine
• Bulgarian: издънка (izdǎnka) — shoot of a plant
• Bulgarian: филиз (filiz) — shoot of a plant
• Czech: výhonek — shoot of a plant
• Czech: odnož — shoot of a plant
• Estonian: kasv — shoot of a plant
• Estonian: juurdevõsu — shoot of a plant
• Irish: meathán íochtair — shoot of a plant
• Breton: barrenn-ster — part of the rudder
• Bulgarian: ру́мпел (rúmpel) — part of the rudder
• Catalan: arjau — part of the rudder
• Czech: kormidelní páka — part of the rudder
• Danish: rorpind — part of the rudder
• Dutch: helmstok — part of the rudder
• Estonian: tüüripuu — part of the rudder
• Estonian: roolipinn — part of the rudder
• Finnish: pinna — part of the rudder
• Finnish: peräsinvarsi — part of the rudder
• Finnish: peräsinkampi — part of the rudder
• French: barre — part of the rudder
• Galician: cana — part of the rudder
• German: Pinne — part of the rudder
• German: Helmstock — part of the rudder
• Ancient Greek: οἴαξ (oíax) — part of the rudder
• Hebrew: יָדִית הֶגֶה (yadit hegeh) — part of the rudder
• Hungarian: kormányrúd — part of the rudder
• Hungarian: hajókormány — part of the rudder
• Icelandic: stjórnvölur — part of the rudder
• Irish: halmadóir — part of the rudder
• Irish: maide stiúrach — part of the rudder
• Italian: barra del timone — part of the rudder
• Latin: ansa — part of the rudder
• Low German: Helmholt — part of the rudder
• Low German: Pinn — part of the rudder
• Norwegian Bokmål: rorkult — part of the rudder
• Norwegian Bokmål: rorpinne — part of the rudder
• Old Norse: grandr — part of the rudder
• Plautdietsch: Scheppstia — part of the rudder
• Polish: rumpel — part of the rudder
• Portuguese: cana do leme — part of the rudder
• Russian: ру́мпель (rúmpelʹ) — part of the rudder
• Scottish Gaelic: failm — part of the rudder
• Scottish Gaelic: falmadair — part of the rudder
• Serbo-Croatian: kormilo — part of the rudder
• Spanish: caña del timón — part of the rudder
• Swahili: ujari — part of the rudder
• Swahili: mkombo — part of the rudder
• Swahili: kana — part of the rudder
• Swedish: rorkult — part of the rudder
• Welsh: braich llyw — part of the rudder
• Welsh: hegl llyw — part of the rudder
• Bulgarian: пускам филизи (puskam filizi) — put forth new shoots
• Czech: rozvětvit se — put forth new shoots
• Czech: rozvětvovat se — put forth new shoots
• Estonian: võsuma — put forth new shoots
• Finnish: versoa — put forth new shoots
• Greek: αδελφώνω (adelfóno) — put forth new shoots
• Italian: accestire — put forth new shoots