tass

See also: Tass, tāss, and TASS

English

Alternative forms

• tas

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”).

Alternative forms

• tasse

Noun

tass (plural tasses)

1. Synonym of tasse

References

• The Dictionary of the Scots Language
• The Dictionary of the Scots Language

Etymology 4

From Hindi [Term?].

Alternative forms

• tash

Noun

tass

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

Anagrams

• Ass't, Asst, SATs, STAS, asst., sats

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Estonian

tass

Etymology

Borrowed from German Tasse.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt`ɑsʲs/, [ˈt`ɑsʲs]

Noun

tass (genitive tassi, partitive tassi)

1. cup

Further reading

• “tass”, in [PSV] Eesti keele põhisõnavara sõnastik [Dictionary of Estonian Basic Vocabulary] (in Estonian) (online version, not updated), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2014
• “tass”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
• “tass”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
• tass in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

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Swedish

Etymology

Unknown. Possibly from Ancient Greek ταρσός (tarsós) or more likely from German Tatze. (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

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	tass	tass
	definite	tassen	tassens
plural	indefinite	tassar	tassars
	definite	tassarna	tassarnas

Related terms

• baktass
• framtass
• hundtass
• kattass
• tassa
• tassavtryck
• tassemark
• tassfot
• tassig
• vacker tass

Descendants

• → Finnish: tassu

References

• tass in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Anagrams

• sats