tath

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

1. The dung of livestock left on a field to serve as manure or fertiliser.
2. A piece of ground dunged by livestock.
3. Strong grass growing around the dung of kine.

Verb

To manure (land) by pasturing cattle on it, or causing them to lie upon it.

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: tath

Verwante met Yslands: tað

Verwante met Sweeds: tad

Geërf van Middle English: tathen

Verwante met Yslands: teðja

Verwante met Noors: tedja

Verwante met Duits: zetten

In summary

From Middle English tath, from Old Norse tað (“manure”), from Proto-Germanic *tadą (“manure”), from Proto-Indo-European *dāy- (“to divide, split, part, section”). Cognate with Icelandic tað (“manure, dung”), dialectal Swedish tad (“manure, dung”).