Where does “tithe” come from?

tithe (Middle English) comes from Old English teoþa, from Proto-West Germanic tehundō, from Proto-Germanic tehundô — tenth.

tithe (Middle English): tenth

Definitions

  1. tenth

Ancestry of “tithe”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Englishteoþatenth
2Proto-West Germanictehundōtenth
3Proto-Germanictehundôtenth

Words derived from “tithe”

Every word from Proto-Germanic tehundô →