coath
Meanings
noun
- Sickness; disease; pestilence.
- An attack of illness, such as swooning, pangs of childbirth, etc.
- A disease affecting sheep or cattle.
verb
- To faint.
- To give (sheep, cattle) the coe or rot.
Pronunciation
Word forms
Etymology
From Middle English cothe, from Old English coþu (“disease, sickness, pestilence”), from Proto-Germanic *kuþō.
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