tithe

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From Middle English tithe, tythe, tethe, from Old English tēoþa, tēoða, teogoþa (in verb senses via Middle English tithen, tythen, tethen, from Old English tēoþian, teogoþian), from a proposed Proto-Germanic *tehunþô, *tehundô (“a tenth”), with its nasal consonant being lost according to the Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law. Cognate with West Frisian tsiende (“tithe”), Saterland Frisian Teeged (“tithe”), Dutch tiende, German Low German Teihnte, German Zehnt (“tithe”), Danish tiende (“tithe”), Icelandic tíund (“tithe”), Dutch tiende (“tithe”). Doublet of tenth.

50 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Catalan: delme — tax paid to the Church
• Chinese Mandarin: 十一奉献 (shíyī fèngxiàn) — tax paid to the Church
• Czech: desátek — tax paid to the Church
• Danish: tiende — tax paid to the Church
• Dutch: tiende — tax paid to the Church
• Esperanto: dekonaĵo — tax paid to the Church
• Estonian: kümnis — tax paid to the Church
• Finnish: kymmenykset — tax paid to the Church
• Finnish: kirkollisvero — tax paid to the Church
• French: dîme — tax paid to the Church
• Galician: dismo — tax paid to the Church
• Galician: décimo — tax paid to the Church
• Galician: sincura — tax paid to the Church
• Galician: avinza — tax paid to the Church
• German: Zehnt — tax paid to the Church
• Greek: δεκάτη (dekáti) — tax paid to the Church
• Hebrew: מַעֲשֵׂר (ma'asér) — tax paid to the Church
• Hungarian: tized — tax paid to the Church
• Hungarian: dézsma — tax paid to the Church
• Icelandic: tíund — tax paid to the Church
• Indonesian: persepuluhan — tax paid to the Church
• Irish: deachú — tax paid to the Church
• Italian: decima — tax paid to the Church
• Korean: 십일조 (sibiljo) — tax paid to the Church
• Lithuanian: dešimtinė — tax paid to the Church
• Māori: whakatekau — tax paid to the Church
• Middle English: tithe — tax paid to the Church
• Norman: dgiême — tax paid to the Church
• Norwegian Bokmål: tiende — tax paid to the Church
• Norwegian Nynorsk: tiend — tax paid to the Church
• Polish: dziesięcina — tax paid to the Church
• Portuguese: dízimo — tax paid to the Church
• Romanian: zeciuială — tax paid to the Church
• Russian: десяти́на (desjatína) — tax paid to the Church
• Serbo-Croatian: desetina — tax paid to the Church
• Spanish: diezmo — tax paid to the Church
• Swedish: tionde — tax paid to the Church
• Tagalog: pahunos — tax paid to the Church
• Turkish: öşür — tax paid to the Church
• Turkmen: hüşür — tax paid to the Church
• Ukrainian: десяти́на (desjatýna) — tax paid to the Church
• Uyghur: ئۆشرە (öshre) — tax paid to the Church
• Welsh: degwm — tax paid to the Church
• Portuguese: décimo — a small part or proportion
• Romanian: fărâmă — a small part or proportion
• Russian: кро́шечка (króšečka) — a small part or proportion
• Serbo-Croatian: desetinka — a small part or proportion
• Finnish: periä kymmenykset — to collect a tithe
• Māori: whakatekau — to collect a tithe
• Middle English: tithen — to collect a tithe