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TassEnglish (en) · Unnumbered etymologySource text
From Hungarian Tass.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗TASSEnglish (en) · Unnumbered etymologySource text
From Russian ТАСС (TASS), acronym of Телеграфное аге́нтство Советского Союза (Telegrafnoje agéntstvo Sovetskovo Sojuza).
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗tassEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
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.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗tassEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text
From Middle English *tasse, from Old French tasse (Modern French tasse (“cup, cupful”)). Cognate with Dutch tas (“cup”), German Tasse (“mug”). Doublet of tazza.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗tassEnglish (en) · Etymology 3Source text
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”).
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗tassEnglish (en) · Etymology 4Source text
From Hindi; compare तसर (tasar, “shuttle (weaving)”).
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Chambers (1908)
1908- TassEnglish · e-38700-4450
Tass, tas, n. (prov.) a hay-mow, a heap. [O. Fr. tas, a heap, most prob. Teut.]
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Tass, tas, n. (obs.) a pouch. [Tasset.]
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Tass, tas, n. a drinking-cup or its contents. [Fr. tasse—Ar. tās, a cup.]
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Tass, tas, n. a piece of armour for the thigh. [Tasset.]
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