Tasis vs Tass - What's the difference?
tasis | tass |
(prosody) Extending the sound of an utterance for the pleasure of saying or hearing it.
(usually, in combination, medicine) A stretching.
(rare, or, obsolete) a heap, pile.
A cup or cupful.
* 1824 , Sir Walter Scott, Redgauntlet
As a noun tasis
is (prosody) extending the sound of an utterance for the pleasure of saying or hearing it.As a proper noun tass is
.tasis
English
Noun
(-)Derived terms
* iridotasis * myotasistass
English
Alternative forms
* tasEtymology 1
Partly from (etyl) . See (l). (got)Noun
(tasses)Etymology 2
Compare (etyl) .Noun
(es)- "Here, Dougal," said the Laird, "gie Steenie a tass of brandy down stairs, till I count the siller and write the receipt."