tass

Meanings

1. A heap, pile.

1. A cup or cupful.

1. Synonym of tasse.

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

1. Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union

1. plural of TAS

1. A village in Bács-Kiskun, Hungary.
2. Former name of Nyírtass: a village in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg, Hungary.

Etymology

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 *deh₂y- (“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 𐌿𐌽𐌲𐌰𐍄𐌰𐍃𐍃 (ungatass, “disorganised, irregular”); and possibly also to Old High German zetten (“to straw, fertilise”), Old Norse tað (“spread dung”). See tath.