tath

(Английский)

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.

Этимология (Английский)

Унаследовано от среднеанглийский: tath

Родственно исландский: tað

Родственно шведский: tad

Унаследовано от среднеанглийский: tathen

Родственно исландский: teðja

Родственно норвежский: tedja

Родственно немецкий: 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”).