heath

Oznaczający (English)

1. A tract of level uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation; heathland.
2. Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae.
3. Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae.
4. Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae.
5. Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae.
6. Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae.
7. Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae.
8. Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae.
9. Any butterfly or moth of species:
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Synonyms

moor

heather

heathland

wasteland

wetland

bog

fen

marsh

marshland

morass

moorland

quag

quagmire

swamp

grass tree

briar

brier

broom

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field

ling

wilderness

wold

Ericaceae

Scots heather

badlands

Wymawiane jako (IPA)

/hiːθ/

Etymologia (English)

Inherited from średnioangielski: heeth

Inherited from staroangielski: hǣþ

Cognate with niderlandzki: heide

Cognate with niemiecki: Heide

Cognate with norweski: hei

Cognate with szwedzki: hed

Cognate with Old Welsh: coit

Cognate with walijski: coed

Cognate with łaciński: 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”).