oth

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See also: OTH, -oth, o'th', , oþ-, and -oþ

English

Noun

oth (plural oths)

  1. Obsolete spelling of oath
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I, published 1921:
      They bring them wines of Greece and Araby,[*] And daintie spices fetcht from furthest Ynd,[*] To kindle heat of corage privily: And in the wine a solemne oth they bynd 35 T' observe the sacred lawes of armes, that are assynd.

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Etymology

From Old English āþ, from Proto-West Germanic *aiþ, from Proto-Germanic *aiþaz (oath).

Pronunciation

Noun

oth (plural othes)

  1. oath

Descendants

  • English: oath
  • Scots: aith
  • Yola: oathès (plural)

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