"tilth" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /tɪlθ/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-tilth.wav Forms: tilths [plural]
Rhymes: -ɪlθ Etymology: From Middle English tilthe, from Old English tilþ, tilþe, corresponding to till + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|tilthe}} Middle English tilthe, {{inh|en|ang|tilþ}} Old English tilþ, {{suffix|en|till|th|id2=abstract nominal|pos2=abstract nominal suffix}} till + -th (abstract nominal suffix) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} tilth (countable and uncountable, plural tilths)
  1. Agricultural labour; husbandry. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (agricultural labour; husbandry): земеделие (zemedelie) [neuter] (Bulgarian), földművelés (Hungarian), művelés (Hungarian), megművelés (Hungarian), talajlazítás (Hungarian), talajporhanyítás (Hungarian), talajjavítás (Hungarian)
    Sense id: en-tilth-en-noun-XiS8ESPO Categories (other): Agriculture Disambiguation of Agriculture: 100 0 0 0 Disambiguation of 'agricultural labour; husbandry': 98 1 0 1
  2. The state of being tilled, or prepared for a crop; culture. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (the state of being tilled): разораване (razoravane) [neuter] (Bulgarian), ameublissement (French), ხნული (xnuli) (Georgian), ნახნავი (naxnavi) (Georgian), porhanyósság (Hungarian), lazultság (Hungarian), обрабо́тка по́чвы (obrabótka póčvy) (Russian)
    Sense id: en-tilth-en-noun-5RX5JBcs Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -th (abstract nominal), Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Georgian translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Russian translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 11 75 5 9 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -th (abstract nominal): 15 54 12 19 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 2 84 6 7 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 3 69 8 20 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 2 80 5 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 13 67 9 10 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 7 71 10 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Georgian translations: 8 65 9 18 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 8 70 9 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 5 81 6 8 Disambiguation of 'the state of being tilled': 1 96 1 2
  3. Cultivated land Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-tilth-en-noun-gCG1e-ff
  4. Rich cultivated soil. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-tilth-en-noun-vCdiEdvh Categories (other): Soil science Disambiguation of Soil science: 2 3 3 92
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: earth-tilth Related terms: till, tillage

Noun [Middle English]

Head templates: {{head|enm|noun|altform=1}} tilth
  1. Alternative form of tilthe Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: tilthe
    Sense id: en-tilth-enm-noun-egan0gZ~ Categories (other): Middle English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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      "roman": "obrabótka póčvy",
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-06-13 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-06-01 using wiktextract (9c82c1c and f1c2b61). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.