tass

See also: Tass, tāss, and TASS

English

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tæs/
  • Rhymes: -æs

Etymology 1

Partly from Middle English tas (“heap”), from Old French tas (“heap”), from Frankish *tas (“mass, pile”); and partly from Middle English taas (“heap, mow of corn”), from Old English tas (“heap, mow of grain”); both from Proto-Germanic *tasaz, *tassaz (“heap, mow, stack”), from Proto-Indo-European *deh₂y- (“to divide, split, section, part, separate”). Related to Middle Dutch tas, tasse (“heap, pile”, Dutch tas), Middle Low German tas (“mow of hay or wheat”), Gothic 𐌿𐌽𐌲𐌰𐍄𐌰𐍃𐍃 (ungatass, “disorganised, irregular”); and possibly also to Old High German zetten (“to straw, fertilise”), Old Norse tað (“spread dung”). See tath.

Noun

tass (plural tasses)

  1. (rare or obsolete) A heap, pile.

Etymology 2

From Middle English *tasse, from Old French tasse (Modern French tasse (“cup, cupful”)). Cognate with Dutch tas (“cup”), German Tasse (“mug”). Doublet of tazza.

Noun

tass (plural tasses)

  1. (dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A cup or cupful.
    • 1824, Sir Walter Scott, Redgauntlet:
      "Here, Dougal," said the Laird, "gie Steenie a tass of brandy down stairs, till I count the siller and write the receipt."

Etymology 3

From Middle English tasse, tache, from Old French tasse, tasche (“purse; pouch”), from Frankish *taska (“pouch”), from Proto-Germanic *taskǭ, cognate with Old High German tasca (“pouch”), German Tasche (“pocket; pouch”).

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Noun

tass (plural tasses)

  1. Synonym of tasse

Etymology 4

From Hindi [Term?].

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Noun

tass

  1. An Oriental silk fabric, with gold or silver thread.

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Estonian

tass

Etymology

Borrowed from German Tasse.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tˈɑsʲː/

Noun

tass (genitive tassi, partitive tassi)

  1. cup

Declension

References

  1. tass in Metsmägi, Iris; Sedrik, Meeli; Soosaar, Sven-Erik (2012), Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat, Tallinn: Eesti Keele Instituut, →ISBN

Further reading

Swedish

Etymology

Unknown. Possibly from Ancient Greek ταρσός (tarsós) or more likely from German Tatze. Also possibly from verb tassa, if it originally was onomatopetic. (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)

Noun

tass c

  1. a paw (animal's foot)
    (räcka) vacker tass ― give a paw
    Den sov på verandan med huvudet mot tassarna och svansen i en graciös sväng runt benen. ― It slept on the porch with its head on its paws and the tail gracefully curled around the legs.
  2. (colloquial) a hand
    Bort med tassarna! ― Hands off! Paws off!

Declension

Declension of tass 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative tass tassen tassar tassarna
Genitive tass tassens tassars tassarnas

Descendants

  • → Finnish: tassu

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