different between eave vs eame

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

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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

English

Noun

eame (plural eames)

1. Obsolete form of eme. (an uncle).
   • 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, Book IV, xlix:

     Three times the shape of my dear mother came, / Pale, sad, dismay'd, to warn me in my dream: // Alas! how far transformed from the same, / Whose eyes shone erst like Titan's glorious beam.— // Daughter, she says, fly, fly, behold thy dame, / Foreshows the treasons of thy wretched eame.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Spenser to this entry?)

Anagrams

• Amee, EMEA, Emae