Heath Definition
Other Word Forms of Heath
Noun
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Heath
- one's native heath
Origin of Heath
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From Middle English heeth, hethe, heth, from Old English hǣþ (“heath, untilled land, waste; heather”), from Proto-Germanic *haiþī (“heath, waste, untilled land”), from Proto-Indo-European *kait-, *ḱait- (“forest, wasteland, pasture”). Cognate with Dutch heide (“heath, moorland”), German Heide (“heath, moor”), Swedish hed (“heath, moorland”), Old Welsh coit (“forest”), Latin bū-cētum (“pastureland”, literally “cow-pasture”), Albanian kath (“type of wheat”), kasht (“straw”).
From Wiktionary
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Middle English uncultivated land from Old English hǣth kaito- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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