different between tass vs jass

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

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Alemannic German Jass.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /jas/

Noun

jass (uncountable)

1. (card games) A trick-taking card game popular in Switzerland and neighboring areas of Germany and Austria.
   • 1986, Kenneth Hsu, The Great Dying:

     A Swiss jass master and I teamed up against my wife and an American, who were both rank beginners.

   • 2010, Diccon Bewes, Swiss Watching, p. 244:

     Jass is similar to bridge, though with completely different cards, and is a national obsession, for young and old alike.

   • 2014, Donal McLaughlin, translating Arno Camenisch, Behind the Station:

     When Nonna plays cards, she moves her teeth from side to side. It makes a bit of a racket. It distracts the other jass players – that's why Nonna's so good at jass.

Further reading

• jass on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• An explanation of the card game's rules

Etymology 2

Obsolete and variant forms.

Noun

jass (uncountable)

1. Obsolete spelling of jazz
   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 417:

     “Yet I've noticed the same thing when your band plays—the most amazing social coherence, as if you all shared the same brain.”

     “Sure,” agreed “Dope,” “but you can't call that organization.”

     “What do you call it?”

     “Jass.”

Icelandic

Noun

jass m (genitive singular jass, no plural)

1. Alternative form of djass

Declension