tass

See also: Tass, TASS, TASs, TAS's, and tāss

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 *taskā (“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

Etymology 4

From Hindi [Term?].

Alternative forms

• tash

Noun

tass

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

References

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

Anagrams

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

Estonian

tass

Etymology

Borrowed from German Tasse.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tˈɑsʲː/

Noun

tass (genitive tassi, partitive tassi)

1. cup

Declension

Declension of tass (ÕS type 22e/riik, length gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		tass	tassid
accusative	nom.
	gen.	tassi
genitive			tasside
partitive		tassi	tasse tassisid
illative		tassi tassisse	tassidesse tassesse
inessive		tassis	tassides tasses
elative		tassist	tassidest tassest
allative		tassile	tassidele tassele
adessive		tassil	tassidel tassel
ablative		tassilt	tassidelt tasselt
translative		tassiks	tassideks tasseks
terminative		tassini	tassideni
essive		tassina	tassidena
abessive		tassita	tassideta
comitative		tassiga	tassidega

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)

Swedish

Etymology

Unknown. Possibly ultimately from Ancient Greek ταρσός (tarsós, “flat of the foot, ankle, palm of the hand”) (probably through Latin tarsus by way of German Tarsus or French tarse; compare English tarsal). Perhaps the meaning extended from "flat surface of the foot or palm" to "paw of an animal."

Compare the verb tassa (“to walk quietly”), which could either be a formation from tass or otherwise imitative. Also compare German Tatze (“paw”).

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!

   skaka tass

   shake hands/paw

Usage notes

For a larger paw, like on a bear, other words are labb and ram.

Declension

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

Related terms

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

 

Descendants

• → Finnish: tassu

References

• tass in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• tass in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• tass in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

• sats