Noun: heath
| Singular | heath |
| Plural | heaths |
Sample Sentences
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1. Where the place?/2. Vpon the Heath/3. There to meet with Macbeth [c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:]
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These two stood in the corridor, waving till the last of the platform was out of sight; then they came into our compartment, and the woman cried a little. Soon she dried her eyes, and went back into the corridor, to have a last glimpse of her native heath. [1955 May, Rev. A. W. V. Mace, “An Irish Journey—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 303:]
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There was nobody living in Jim's old house, and some of the windows was broken; but there was heath growing back and front. [1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 258:]
Nouns inflected like heath
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle English heth, heeth, hethe, from Old English hǣþ (“heath, untilled land, waste; heather”), from Proto-West Germanic *haiþi, from Proto-Germanic *haiþī (“heath, waste, untilled land”), from Proto-Indo-European *kayt- (“forest, wasteland, pasture”).
2. Cognate with Dutch heide (“heath, moorland”), German Heide (“heath, moor”), Norwegian hei (“heath”), Swedish hed (“heath, moorland”), Old Welsh coit (“forest”), Welsh coed (“forest”), Latin būcētum (“pastureland”, literally “cow-pasture”) -cetum (“place of, grove of”). See: Middle English Nouns '
heth', Dutch Nouns '
heide', German Nouns '
Heide', Swedish Nouns '
hed', Latin Nouns '
bucetum'.
Verbs referencing "heath"
Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
hei, German Nouns
Heide, Gothic Nouns
𐌷𐌰𐌹𐌸𐌹.