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Middle English
Verb
eart
- Alternative form of art: second-person singular present of been
Old English
Alternative forms
Verb
eart
- second-person singular present indicative of wesan
West Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian *erit, *erwit, from Proto-Germanic *arwīts (“pea”). Cognate with Dutch erwt, German Erbse.
Noun
eart c (plural earten or earte, diminutive eartsje)
- pea
Alternative forms
Further reading
- “eart (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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Etymology
From Middle English earþe, from Old English earþe, from Proto-West Germanic *erþu.
Noun
eart
- Alternative form of erth
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 38