different between awning vs eave

English

Etymology

1615-25 (nautical sense only); from *awn +? -ing, reduction of Middle French auvans (“sloping roof”), from Old French anvant (1180), from Gaulish *an(de)bann? (“eaves”) (compare Occitan ambans (“parapet”)), form of *ande- (intensive prefix) (compare Welsh an-, Old Irish ind-) + *band? (“horn; peak”) (compare Welsh ban, Irish beann).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???n??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??n??/
• (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA^(key): /??n??/
• Rhymes: -??n??

Noun

awning (plural awnings)

1. A rooflike cover, usually of canvas, extended over or before any place as a shelter from the sun, rain, or wind.
2. (nautical) That part of the poop deck which is continued forward beyond the bulkhead of the cabin.

Translations

Anagrams

• Angwin, waning

English

Etymology

A back-formation from eaves, from a misinterpretation of the -s ending as forming a plural.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /i?v/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /iv/
• Homophones: eve, Eve
• Rhymes: -i?v

Noun

eave (plural eaves)

1. (architecture) Alternative form of eaves (“the underside of a roof that extends beyond the external walls of a building”) [from mid 18th c.]

Derived terms

• eaved
• eaving

References

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English even, from Old English ?fen, from Proto-West Germanic *?banþ.

Noun

eave

1. eve

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , 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, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN