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heath

  [heeth]
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–noun
1. a tract of open and uncultivated land; wasteland overgrown with shrubs.
2. any of various low-growing evergreen shrubs common on such land, as the common heather, Calluna vulgaris.
3. any plant of the genus Erica, or of the family Ericaceae.
Compare heath family.

Origin:
bef. 900; ME; OE hǣth; c. G Heide, ON heithr, Goth haithi; akin to Welsh coed trees, wood

Related forms:
heathless, adjective
heathlike, adjective
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Word Origin & History

heath 
O.E. hæð "tract of wasteland," earlier "heather," infl. by O.N. heiðr "field," from P.Gmc. *khaithijo (cf. O.S. hetha, O.H.G. heida "heather," Du. heide "heath," Goth. haiþi "field"), from PIE *kait- "open, unplowed country" (cf. O.Ir. ciad, Welsh coed, Breton coet "wood, forest").
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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