eth

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See also: Eth, ETH, -eth, eth-, Eth., eð, and eþ

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

The sound /ɛ/ followed by the sound of the letter, by analogy with other letter names, such as those of f, l, and m.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɛð/, (less commonly) /ɛθ/
    • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛð

Noun

eth (plural eths)

  1. A letter (capital Ð, small ð) introduced into Old English to represent its dental fricative, then not distinguished from the letter thorn, no longer used in English but still in modern use in Icelandic, the IPA and other phonetic alphabets to represent the voiced dental fricative "th" sound as in the English word then. The letter is also used in Faroese, but is generally silent in that language.

Translations

See also

References

  1. ^ “eth”, in Collins English Dictionary.

Anagrams

Albanian

Etymology 1

Uncertain. Perhaps related to end (“to weave”).

Verb

eth (aorist etha, participle ethur)

  1. to mate (cattle)

Etymology 2

Unclear. Perhaps related to Proto-Germanic *audaz (“wealth, riches”), hence Old Saxon ōd, Old High German ōt, Old Norse auðr Icelandic auður.

Noun

eth m

  1. (chiefly dialectal) property
Related terms

Cornish

Cornish cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : eth
    Ordinal : ethves

Etymology 1

From Proto-Brythonic *üiθ, from Proto-Celtic *oxtū (compare Welsh wyth), from Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw.

Numeral

eth

  1. eight

Etymology 2

Noun

eth f (singulative ethen)

  1. scents

Occitan

Pronunciation

Article

eth m (feminine singular era, masculine plural eths, feminine plural eras)

  1. (Gascony) the
    Synonym: lo

Derived terms

Pronoun

eth

  1. (Gascony) he

Old Irish

Pronunciation

Verb

·eth

  1. passive singular preterite conjunct of téit

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
eth unchanged n-eth
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *aiþ.

Noun

eth m

  1. oath

Declension

Declension of ēth (masculine a-stem)
singular plural
nominative ēth ēthos
accusative ēth ēthos
genitive ēthes ēthō
dative ēthe ēthum
instrumental — —


Descendants

  • Middle Low German: êt
    • German Low German: Eed
    • Plautdietsch: Eit
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