teart

== English == === Etymology === Dialectal form of tart, applied by British farmers to soils since before the era of chemical science and the discovery of molybdenum but retroactively defined by molybdenum concentration and pH level. === Pronunciation === (General American) IPA(key): /tɪɚt/ (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /tɪət/ === Adjective === teart (agriculture and soil science, of pasture soils) Tending toward scouring (diarrheal illness) in grazing livestock, being high in molybdenum content and neutral to alkaline in pH. ==== Usage notes ==== The comparative forms would be tearter and teartest, being cognate with tarter and tartest, although being dialectal in an agrarian age they are not attested in written records. === References === === Anagrams === Ratte, Treat, atter, ratte, tater, tetra, tetra-, treat == Middle English == === Noun === teart (Early Middle English) alternative form of tarte == Old English == === Etymology === From Proto-West Germanic *tart, from Proto-Germanic *tartaz (“rough, sharp, tearing”), from Proto-Germanic *teraną (“to tear”), from Proto-Indo-European *der- (“to flay, split, cleave”) === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /tæ͜ɑrt/, [tæ͜ɑrˠt] === Adjective === teart (comparative teartra, superlative teartest) tart sharp ==== Declension ==== ==== Descendants ==== Middle English: tart, teart, tarte, terteEnglish: tart, teartScots: tairt