Talk:Tithing

Tithing (country subdivision) renamed to tithing

From my talk page:

Could you please undo your move of tithing (country subdivision) to tithing, which was done on Nov 2nd? Tithing should be a disambiguation, as the word "tithe" (as a verb) is also commonly used in the "tithing" (present participle) form within articles here at WP to refer to the religious concept. See also wikt:tithe and wikt:tithing. I'd be happy to make a proper disambig page at tithing once this undo is completed. -- 208.81.184.4 (talk) 16:32, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

I am not in the mind to do so as Wikipedia is not a dictionary, such usage should link to wikt:tithe. If you want to take it further I suggest that you place a request at WP:RM --PBS (talk) 16:50, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

Etymology within this article

Just an observation, but (to a non-student of Old English) this page seems to be giving two quite different etymologies for "tithing" as a group of households, one of which is almost certainly not correct in context. The first, in the definition paragraph (and the one that I would have assumed, and that, naively, feels correct), splits the word as "ti-thing" - a "ten-group". Whereas the actual Etymology paragraph forgets the existence and meaning of "thing" completely, notes what the word for a tenth used to be, and decides that the "th" originates as a suffix.

It seems to me that there are homonymns here. One is the "ti-thing" (the group of ten) of the first paragraph; the other is the gerund of the verb to "tithe", (to give a tenth) - which is only related by also deriving from the number ten. It's the difference between "a ten Thing" and "a tenth-ing". And if so, the Etymology paragraph is for the wrong one of the two, and needs rework. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.200.134.189 (talk) 06:23, 18 December 2016 (UTC)

I think the Norse etymology is wrong, it's just "tithe" with an -ing-ending, completely unrelated to "thing". I remove it. 惑乱 Wakuran (talk) 20:04, 27 January 2017 (UTC)