heath

Meaning

Noun

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  • From Middle English heeth, heth, hethe, from Old English hǣþ ("heath, untilled land, waste; heather"), 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 bucetum ("pastureland") -cetum.

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