tath

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The dung of livestock left on a field to serve as manure or fertiliser. Scotland,UK,archaic,countable,dialectal
    — 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 .
  2. A piece of ground dunged by livestock. Scotland,UK,archaic,countable,dialectal
  3. Strong grass growing around the dung of kine. Scotland,UK,archaic,countable,dialectal
动词 v.
  1. To manure (land) by pasturing cattle on it, or causing them to lie upon it. Scotland,UK,archaic,dialectal,historical
    — I would have no more ploughed than has been tathed the preceding year

词形变化

taths plural teathe alternative tathe alternative taths present,singular,third-person tathing participle,present tathed participle,past tathed past teathe alternative tathe alternative

词源

词源 1
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”).
词源 2
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”).
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