- math (n.1)

- American English shortening of mathematics, 1890; the British preference, maths, is attested from 1911.
- math (n.2)

- "a mowing," Old English mæð "mowing, cutting of grass," from Proto-Germanic *mediz (source also of Old Frisian meth, Old High German mad, German Mahd "mowing, hay crop"), from PIE *me- (4) "to cut grass" (see mow (v.)).