Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

tath

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: tath
IPA

7

Scrabble Score

4

Letters

1

Syllables

3

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The dung of livestock left on a field to serve as manure or fertiliser.

British usage; Archaic; Countable; Uncountable

noun

A piece of ground dunged by livestock.

British usage; Archaic; Countable; Uncountable

noun

Strong grass growing around the dung of kine.

British usage; Archaic; Countable; Uncountable

verb

To manure (land) by pasturing cattle on it.

British usage; Archaic

Example Sentences

"after the sheep have trod out a great quantity of stones, in feeding off turnips, to have them raked up clean, which I have known some farmers do, nor can the rake be used without taking some of the tathe, or dung, with them ."
"I would have no more ploughed than has been tathed the preceding year"

Etymology

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”).

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: tath, tað, *tadą, *dāy-, tathen, teðja

Usage

Inflected Forms

taths (plural) teathe (alternative) tathe (alternative) taths (present, singular) tathing (participle, present) tathed (participle, past) tathed (past)

Questions

What does tath mean?: The dung of livestock left on a field to serve as manure or fertiliser.
Where does tath come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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