Tath vs Rath - What's the difference?
tath | rath |
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.
To manure (land) by pasturing cattle on it, or causing them to lie upon it.
(Webster 1913) (historical) A walled enclosure, especially in Ireland; a ringfort built sometime between the Iron Age and the Viking Age.
* 1907 , James Woods, Annals of Westmeath, Ancient and Modern :
As nouns the difference between tath and rath
is that tath is the dung of livestock left on a field to serve as manure or fertiliser while rath is a walled enclosure, especially in Ireland; a ringfort built sometime between the Iron Age and the Viking Age.As a verb tath
is to manure (land) by pasturing cattle on it, or causing them to lie upon it.As an adjective rath is
alternative form of lang=en.tath
English
Alternative forms
* (l), (l)Etymology 1
From (etyl) tath, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
From (etyl) tathen, from (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)rath
English
(ringfort)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- There are numerous Danish raths in the parish.