# tass
## English
### Alternative forms

* tas

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tæs/
* Rhymes: -æs

### 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 *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.

#### Noun

tass (plural tasses)
* (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)
* (dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A cup or cupful.
** 1824, Sir Walter Scott, Redgauntlet:"Here, Dougal," said the Laird, "gie Steenie a tass of brandy down stairs, till I count the siller and write the receipt."

### Etymology 3

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

#### Alternative forms

* tasse

#### Noun

tass (plural tasses)
* Synonym of tasse

### Etymology 4

From Hindi [Term?].

#### Alternative forms

* tash

#### Noun

tass
* An Oriental silk fabric, with gold or silver thread.

### References

* The Dictionary of the Scots Language
* The Dictionary of the Scots Language

### Anagrams

* Asst, asst., sats, STAS, SATs, stas, Ass't, ASTs, TSSA, Sats

## Estonian
### Etymology

Borrowed from German Tasse.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tˈɑsʲː/
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### Noun

tass (genitive tassi, partitive tassi)
* cup

#### Declension
### References

* ↑ “tass”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012

### Further reading

* “tass”, in [PSV] Eesti keele põhisõnavara sõnastik [Dictionary of Estonian Basic Vocabulary] (in Estonian) (online version, not updated), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2014
* “tass”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
* “tass”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
* tass in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

## Swedish
### Etymology

Unknown. Possibly ultimately from Ancient Greek ταρσός (tarsós, “flat of the foot, ankle, palm of the hand”) (probably through Latin tarsus by way of German Tarsus or French tarse; compare English tarsal). Perhaps the meaning extended from "flat surface of the foot or palm" to "paw of an animal."
Compare the verb tassa (“to walk quietly”), which could either be a formation from tass or otherwise imitative. Also compare German Tatze (“paw”).

### Noun

tass c
* a paw (animal's foot)
    (räcka) vacker tassgive a paw
    Den sov på verandan med huvudet mot tassarna och svansen i en graciös sväng runt benen.It slept on the porch with its head on its paws and the tail gracefully curled around the legs.
* (colloquial) a hand
    Bort med tassarna!Hands off! Paws off!
    skaka tassshake hands/paw

#### Usage notes

For a larger paw, like on a bear, other words are labb and ram.

#### Related terms

* baktass
* framtass
* hartass
* hundtass
* kattass
* tassa
* tassavtryck
* tassemark
* tassfot
* tassig
* vacker tass

#### Descendants

* → Finnish: tassu

### References

* tass in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* tass in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* tass in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
* ↑ “tass”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy]‎ (in Swedish), 1937

### Anagrams

* sats