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.

Etymologie (Engels)

Overgenomen van Middelengels: tath

Verwant aan IJslands: tað

Verwant aan Zweeds: tad

Overgenomen van Middelengels: tathen

Verwant aan IJslands: teðja

Verwant aan Noors: tedja

Verwant aan 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”).