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English
Etymology
From understand + -eth, the archaic third-person singular present tense suffix.
Verb
understandeth
- (archaic) third-person singular simple present indicative of understand
1885, Richard F Burton, transl. and editor, “The Second Kalandar’s Tale. ”, in A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night , Shammar edition, volume I, : Burton Club , →OCLC, page 115:He rejoined, “Thy calling is of no account in our city, where not a soul understandeth science or even writing or aught save money-making.”