tath

Signification (Anglais)

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.

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: tath

Appartenant à islandais: tað

Appartenant à suédois: tad

Hérité de moyen anglais: tathen

Appartenant à islandais: teðja

Appartenant à norvégien: tedja

Appartenant à allemand: 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”).