heath

Signification (Anglais)

1. (countable, uncountable) A tract of level uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation; heathland.
2. (countable, uncountable) Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae.
3. (countable, uncountable) Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae.
4. (countable, uncountable) Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae.
5. (countable, uncountable) Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae.
6. (countable, uncountable) Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae.
7. (countable, uncountable) Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae.
8. (countable, uncountable) Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae.
9. (countable, uncountable) Any butterfly or moth of species:
10. (countable, uncountable) Any butterfly or moth of species:
11. (countable, uncountable) Any butterfly or moth of species:
12. (countable, uncountable) Any butterfly or moth of species:
13. (countable, uncountable) Any butterfly or moth of species:

Concepts

lande

bruyère

marais

steppe

tourbière

ericacées

Synonymes

moor

heather

heathland

wasteland

wetland

bog

fen

marsh

marshland

morass

moorland

quag

quagmire

swamp

grass tree

briar

brier

broom

🧹

field

ling

wilderness

wold

Ericaceae

Scots heather

badlands

Traductions

Heide

heide

landa

brezo

brughiera

heideveld

charneca

dopheide

brezal

hei

erica

dophei

urze

fundalık

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/hiːθ/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: heeth

Hérité de ancien anglais: hǣþ

Appartenant à néerlandais: heide

Appartenant à allemand: Heide

Appartenant à norvégien: hei

Appartenant à suédois: hed

Appartenant à Old Welsh: coit

Appartenant à gallois: coed

Appartenant à latin: bucetum

In summary

From Middle English heeth, heth, hethe, from Old English hǣþ (“heath, untilled land, waste; heather”), from Proto-West Germanic *haiþi, from Proto-Germanic *haiþī (“heath, waste, untilled land”), from Proto-Indo-European *kayt- (“forest, wasteland, pasture”).
Cognate with Dutch heide (“heath, moorland”), German Heide (“heath, moor”), Norwegian hei (“heath”), Swedish hed (“heath, moorland”), Old Welsh coit (“forest”), Welsh coed (“forest”), Latin būcētum (“pastureland”, literally “cow-pasture”) -cetum (“place of, grove of”).