different between tasis vs tass

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ????? (tásis, “stretching, tension, intensity”).

Noun

tasis (uncountable)

1. (prosody) Extending the sound of an utterance for the pleasure of saying or hearing it.
2. (usually in combination, medicine) A stretching.

Derived terms

• iridotasis
• myotasis

Anagrams

• Satis, Stasi, Tassi, Tissa, Tsais, saist, satis, sista

English

Alternative forms

• tas

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tæs/

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 *deh?y- (“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 ???????????????????????????????? (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.

Etymology 3

From Middle English tasse, tache, from Old French tasse, tasche (“purse; pouch”), from Frankish *taska (“pouch”), from Proto-Germanic *task?, cognate with Old High German tasca (“pouch”), German Tasche (“pocket; pouch”).

Alternative forms

• tasse

Noun

tass (plural tasses)

1. Synonym of tasse

References

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

Etymology 4

From Hindi [Term?].

Alternative forms

• tash

Noun

tass

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

Anagrams

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

Swedish

Etymology

Possibly from Ancient Greek ?????? (tarsós) or more likely from German Tatze.

Noun

tass c

1. a paw (animal's foot)

2. (colloquial) a hand

Declension

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Finnish: tassu

References

• tass in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Anagrams

• sats