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Old English
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Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Proto-Germanic *auþê ~ *auþô. Equivalent to īeþe (“easy”) + -e (“-ly”).
Adverb
ēaþe (comparative īeþ, superlative īeþest)
- easily
- late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Pope Gregory's Pastoral Care
Ac hit mæġ ēaðe ġesǣlan, ġif wē him swelc secgað, ðæt hīe ēac mid ūs ðā ōðre tǣlen, and hīe ðonne eft hira selfra ġescamiġe, ðonne hīe ġemunað ðæt hīe ðæt ilce dōð ðæt hīe on ðǣm ōðrum tǣldon.- It can easily happen that, if we tell them such things, they will also join us in blaming the others, and afterwards be ashamed of themselves, remembering that they do the same that they blamed in the others.
- c. 992, Ælfric, "Palm Sunday: On the Lord's Passion"
Swā fela þūsenda engla meahton ēaðe bewerian Crist wiþ þām unmannum, mid heofonlīcum wǣpnum, ġif hē þrōwian nolde selfwilles for ūs.- That many thousands of angels could have easily defended Christ against those brutes , with weapons from heaven, if he didn't want to suffer voluntarily for us.
Derived terms
Etymology 2
See īeþe.
Adjective
ēaþe
- Alternative form of īeþe
Declension
Declension of ēaþe — Strong
Declension of ēaþe — Weak