different between path vs tath

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English path, peth, from Old English pæþ (“path, track”), from Proto-West Germanic *paþ, from Proto-Germanic *paþaz (“path”) (compare West Frisian paad, Dutch pad, German Pfad), Ancient Greek ????? (paté?) / ????? (pátos), from Iranian (compare Avestan ????????????????????? (panta, “way”), ????????????????? (pa?a, genitive), Old Persian [script needed] (pathi-)), from Proto-Iranian *pántaHh, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *pántaHs (compare Sanskrit ????? (páthin)), from Proto-Indo-European *póntoh?s, from *pent- (“path”) (compare English find). Doublet of panth.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p???/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): [p????]
  • (General Australian, General New Zealand) IPA^(key): [p?ä??], [p????]
• IPA^(key): /pæ?/
  • (US, Canada) IPA^(key): [p?æ?], [p????], [p?e??]
  • (Northern England, Ireland) IPA^(key): [p?a?], [p?æ?]
• Rhymes: -???, -æ?

Noun

path (plural paths)

1. A trail for the use of, or worn by, pedestrians.
2. A course taken.
   • 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,

     Just before Warwick reached Liberty Point, a young woman came down Front Street from the direction of the market-house. When their paths converged, Warwick kept on down Front Street behind her, it having been already his intention to walk in this direction.

3. (paganism) A Pagan tradition, for example witchcraft, Wicca, druidism, Heathenry.
4. A metaphorical course.
5. A method or direction of proceeding.
   • 1751, Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

     The paths of glory lead but to the grave.

6. (computing) A human-readable specification for a location within a hierarchical or tree-like structure, such as a file system or as part of a URL.

7. (graph theory) A sequence of vertices from one vertex to another using the arcs (edges). A path does not visit the same vertex more than once (unless it is a closed path, where only the first and the last vertex are the same).
8. (topology) A continuous map ${\displaystyle f}$ from the unit interval ${\displaystyle I=[0,1]}$ to a topological space ${\displaystyle X}$.
9. (rail transport) A slot available for allocation to a railway train over a given route in between other trains.

Synonyms

• (1): track, trail; see also Thesaurus:way

Hypernyms

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

path (third-person singular simple present paths, present participle pathing, simple past and past participle pathed)

1. (transitive) To make a path in, or on (something), or for (someone).
   • 1597, Michael Drayton, England's Heroical Epistles

     pathing young Henry's unadvised ways

Etymology 2

Shortening.

Noun

path (uncountable)

1. (medicine, abbreviation) Pathology.

References

• Oxford English Dictionary [draft revision; June 2005]
• “path”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Anagrams

• Ptah, phat

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English pæþ, from Proto-Germanic *paþaz, from an Iranian language, from Proto-Iranian *pántaHh, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *pántaHs.

Alternative forms

• paþ, peth, paþþe, paaþ, pathe, paththe, pað, paath

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa?/, /pa??/, /p??/
• Rhymes: -a?

Noun

path (plural pathes)

1. An informal or unpaved path or trail; a track.
2. A choice or way of living; a doctrine.
3. (rare, Late Middle English) A course or route.
4. (rare, Late Middle English) A vessel or vein.

Related terms

• pathen
• pathyng

Descendants

• English: path
• Scots: paith

References

• “p??th, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-08.

Etymology 2

From path (noun).

Verb

path

1. Alternative form of pathen

English

Alternative forms

• teathe, tathe

Etymology 1

From Middle English tath, from Old Norse tað (“manure”), from Proto-Germanic *tad? (“manure”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?y- (“to divide, split, part, section”). Cognate with Icelandic tað (“manure, dung”), dialectal Swedish tad (“manure, dung”).

Noun

tath (countable and uncountable, plural taths)

1. (Britain dialectal, Scotland) The dung of livestock left on a field to serve as manure or fertiliser.
2. (Britain dialectal, Scotland) A piece of ground dunged by livestock.
3. (Britain dialectal, Scotland) Strong grass growing around the dung of kine.

Etymology 2

From Middle English tathen, from Old Norse teðja (“to manure”), from Proto-Germanic *tadjan? (“to strew, scatter”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?y- (“to divide, split, part, section”). Cognate with Icelandic teðja (“to dung, manure”), Norwegian tedja (“to dung”), German zetten (“to let fall in small pieces, let crumble”).

Verb

tath (third-person singular simple present taths, present participle tathing, simple past and past participle tathed)

1. (Britain dialectal, Scotland) To manure (land) by pasturing cattle on it, or causing them to lie upon it.

Anagrams

• hatt, that