heath

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A tract of level uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation; heathland.

   1. Where the place?/2. Vpon the Heath/3. There to meet with Macbeth.

2. 2
   noun

   Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae.

   There was nobody living in Jim's old house, and some of the windows was broken; but there was heath growing back and front.

3. 3
   noun

   a tract of level wasteland

4. 4
   noun

   a low evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae

Simplified etymology

Heath is a Germanic word already in use in Old English. It is related to the word underlying heathen, which meant "inhabiting open country."

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”). 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”).

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