different between eth vs ethe

English

Alternative forms

• edh

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ð/, (less commonly) /??/
• Rhymes: -?ð

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

• thorn, þorn, þ
• wynn, wen, ?
• Wikipedia article on eth

References

Anagrams

• HET, TEH, het, teh, the, the-

Albanian

Etymology 1

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

Verb

eth (first-person singular past tense etha, participle ethur)

1. to mate (cattle)

Etymology 2

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

Noun

eth m

1. (chiefly dialectal) property

Related terms

Cornish

Etymology 1

From Proto-Brythonic *üi?, from Proto-Celtic *oxt? (compare Welsh wyth), from Proto-Indo-European *o?t?w.

Numeral

eth

1. eight

Etymology 2

Noun

eth f (singulative ethen)

1. scents

Occitan

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

• IPA^(key): /e?/

Verb

·eth

1. passive singular preterite conjunct of téit

Mutation

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *aiþaz.

Noun

eth m

1. oath

Descendants

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

English

Etymology 1

From the Ancient Greek ??? (?th?), the contracted nominative plural form of ???? (êthos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?i??i?/

Noun

ethe

1. plural of ethos
   • 1892: Bernhard Bosanquet, A History of Aesthetic, p72

     And it is a further proof of our view, that beginners in poetry attain completeness in expression and ethe [plural of ethos], before they are capable of composing the march of incidents; almost all the earliest poets are instances of this.

   • 1942: International Universities Press, Journal of Legal and Political Sociology, p85

     The relation between social groups and their ethe is rational; they vary in fixed ratios.

   • 2003: Patchen Markell, Bound by Recognition, p76

     […] it makes sense to say that these speeches are representations of their ethe.

Etymology 2

See eath.

Adjective

ethe (comparative more ethe, superlative most ethe)

1. (obsolete) easy
   • 1579, Edmund Spenser, "The Shepheardes Calender", The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 4, Charles C. Little and James Brown (1839), page 330:

     Hereto, the hilles bene nigher heaven, / And thence the passage ethe; / As well can proove the piercing levin, / That seldome falles beneath.

Anagrams

• Thee, the'e, thee

Albanian

Alternative forms

• hethe

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *aida(s), from Proto-Indo-European *h2eidh-o- (“burning fire”). Cognate to Ancient Greek ????? (aîthos, “burning, fire”), Old English ád (“funeral pile”), Old Saxon ?d (“firebrand”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???/ * IPA^(key): /h???/

Noun

ethe f

1. fever

References

Kamba

Noun

ethe

1. father

Middle English

Alternative forms

• eithe, ith

Etymology

From Old English ?eþe, from Proto-West Germanic *auþ?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????(?)/, /?e??(?)/

Adjective

ethe

1. easy

Descendants

• English: eath
• Scots: eith
• Yola: eeth, eeefe

References

• “?th(e, ??th(e, predicate adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.