tath

Meaning

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.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: tath

Cognate with Icelandic: tað

Cognate with Swedish: tad

Inherited from Middle English: tathen

Cognate with Icelandic: teðja

Cognate with Norwegian: tedja

Cognate with German: 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”).