tath

Meanings

Noun

• The dung of livestock left on a field to serve as manure or fertiliser.
• A piece of ground dunged by livestock.
• Strong grass growing around the dung of kine.

Verb

• To manure (land) by pasturing cattle on it, or causing them to lie upon it.

Origin

• 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").
• From Middle English tathen, from Old Norse teðja ("to manure"), from Proto-Germanic *tadjaną ("to strew, scatter"), from Proto-Indo-European *dāy- ("to divide, split, part, section"). Cognate with Icelandic teðja ("to dung, manure"), Norwegian tedja ("to dung"), German zetten ("to let fall in small pieces, let crumble").