tath

(Inglese)

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.

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: tath

Affine islandese: tað

Affine svedese: tad

Ereditato da inglese medio: tathen

Affine islandese: teðja

Affine norvegese: tedja

Affine tedesco: 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”).