- tithe (n.)
- Old English teogoþa (Anglian), teoþa (West Saxon) "tenth," from Proto-Germanic *tegunthon, *tekhunthon. Retained in ecclesiastical sense while the form was replaced in ordinal use by tenth (influenced by ten).
- tithe (v.)
- Old English teoþian, from the root of tithe (n.). Related: Tithed; tithing.