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eth
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)
- 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)
- 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
- (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
- eight
Etymology 2
Noun
eth f (singulative ethen)
- scents
Occitan
Article
eth m (feminine singular era, masculine plural eths, feminine plural eras)
- (Gascony) the
- Synonym: lo
Derived terms
Pronoun
eth
- (Gascony) he
Old Irish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /e?/
Verb
·eth
- passive singular preterite conjunct of téit
Mutation
Old Saxon
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *aiþaz.
Noun
eth m
- oath
Descendants
- Middle Low German: êt
- German Low German: Eed
- Plautdietsch: Eit
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thee
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English þe, from Old English þ? (“thee”, originally dative, but later also accusative), from Proto-Germanic *þiz (“thee”), from Proto-Indo-European *te (“second-person singular pronoun”). Cognate with German Low German di (“thee”), German dir (“thee”, dative pron.), Icelandic þér (“thee”). More at thou.
Pronunciation
- enPR: th?, IPA(key): /ði?/
- Rhymes: -i?
- Homophone: the (when stressed)
Pronoun
thee (second-person singular, objective case, nominative thou, reflexive thyself)
- (now chiefly archaic, literary) Objective and reflexive case of thou. [from 8th c.]
- (now chiefly archaic, dialect) Thou. [from 12th c.]
Derived terms
- get thee behind me
Translations
Verb
thee (third-person singular simple present thees, present participle theeing, simple past and past participle theed)
- (transitive) To address (a person) using the pronoun thee.
- Synonym: thou
- (intransitive) To use the word thee.
- Synonym: thou
See also
Etymology 2
From Middle English theen (“to increase, prosper, flourish”), from Old English þ?on (“to thrive, prosper, flourish, grow”), from Proto-Germanic *þinhan? (“to thrive, succeed”), from Proto-Indo-European *tenk- (“to succeed, turn out well”). Cognate with Dutch gedijen (“to flourish, thrive, prosper, succeed”), German gedeihen (“to thrive”), Gothic ???????????????????????????????? (gaþeihan, “to increase, thrive”).
Alternative forms
- the (Scotland)
Pronunciation
- enPR: th?, IPA(key): /?i?/
- Rhymes: -i?
Verb
thee (third-person singular simple present thees, present participle theeing, simple past and past participle theed)
- (intransitive, Britain, obsolete) To thrive; prosper.
Derived terms
- theedom
Etymology 3
From Pitman zee, which it is related to phonetically and graphically, and the sound it represents.
Noun
thee (plural thees)
- The letter ?(?, which stands for the th sound /ð/ in Pitman shorthand.
Related terms
- ith
- eth, the name of the IPA letter for this sound
Anagrams
- ethe
Acehnese
Etymology
From Proto-Chamic *th?w, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taqu, from Proto-Austronesian *Caqu.
Verb
thee
- to be informed
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowing from Malay teh, from Min Nan ? (tê). The "-h-" is a faux-Greek spelling (compare Greek ???? (tsái)).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /te?/
- Hyphenation: thee
- Rhymes: -e?
Noun
thee m (plural theeën, diminutive theetje n)
- tea
Derived terms
- kamillethee
- kruidenthee
- muntthee
- rooibosthee
- theedoos
- theeglas
- theekop
- theekrans
- theelepel
- theeleut
- theemuts
- theepauze
- theepot
- theezakje
Descendants
- Afrikaans: tee
- ? West Frisian: tee
- ? Dutch Low Saxon: thee
- ? Danish: te
- ? Faroese: te
- ? English: tea
- Gullah: tea
- Jamaican Creole: tea
- ? Abenaki: ti
- ? Chickasaw: tii'
- ? Cocopa: ?i·
- ? Cornish: té
- ? Cree:
- Canadian syllabics: ?? (tiy)
- Latin: tiy
- ? Inuktitut: ? (tii)
- ? Irish: tae
- ? Maori: t?
- ? Malecite-Passamaquoddy: ti
- ? Mikasuki: ti'g'tlo'q, ji'gitlo'q (“kettle”) (from "tea kettle")
- ? Panamint: tii
- ? Telugu: ?? (??)
- ? Unami: ti
- ? Welsh: te
- ? French: thé
- Haitian Creole: te
- Louisiana Creole French: thé
- ? Armenian: ??? (t?ey)
- ? Coeur d'Alene: liiti
- ? Corsican: tè
- ? Greek: ????? (téïon) (with neuter suffix -ion)
- ? Italian: tè
- ? Romansch: te, té, tè
- ? Norman: thée
- ? Occitan: tè
- ? Romansch: te, té, tè
- ? South Slavey: lidí
- ? Tiri: tee
- ? Walloon: té
- ? German: Tee
- ? German Low German: Tee
- Plautdietsch: Tee
- ? Estonian: tee
- ? Hunsrik: Tee
- ? Lower Sorbian: tej
- ? Romansch: te, té, tè
- ? Saterland Frisian: Tee
- ? Silesian: tyj
- ? Slovene: te (dialectal)
- ? Silesian German: Tee
- ? Vilamovian: tyy
- ? Zipser German: Tee
- ? German Low German: Tee
- ? Icelandic: te
- ? New Latin: thea
- ? Latin: herba thea (“herb tea”)
- ? Polish: herbata
- ? Belarusian: ???????? (harbáta)
- ? Kashubian: arbata, rabata, erbata, rebata
- ? Lithuanian: arbata
- ? Samogitian: erbeta
- ? Ukrainian: ???????? (herbáta), ????????? (herbátka)
- ? Polish: herbata
- ? Latin: herba thea (“herb tea”)
- ? Latvian: t?ja
- ? Norwegian: te
- ? Sranan Tongo: te
- ? Swedish: te, the, thé
- ? Finnish: tee
Anagrams
- heet, hete
Middle English
Etymology 1
Pronoun
thee
- Alternative form of þe (“thee”)
Etymology 2
Verb
thee
- Alternative form of theen
Old Irish
Adjective
thee
- Alternative spelling of thé: lenited form of tee (“hot”).
Scots
Etymology 1
From Old English þ?oh, from Proto-Germanic *þeuh?, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tewk-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?i/
Noun
thee (plural thees)
- thigh
Etymology 2
From Middle English theen, from Old English þ?on, from Proto-Germanic *þinhan?.
Verb
thee (third-person singular present thees, present participle theein, past theet, past participle theet)
- (archaic, literary) To thrive, prosper
Etymology 3
From Middle English þe, from Old English þ? (“thee”, originally dative, but later also accusative), from Proto-Germanic *þiz (“thee”), from Proto-Indo-European *te (“second-person singular pronoun”).
Alternative forms
- dee
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ði/
- (Orkney, Shetland) IPA(key): /di/
Pronoun
thee (subjective case thou, reflexive thysel, possessive determiner thy)
- (archaic outside Orkney and Shetland) thee, you (2nd person singular object pronoun, informal)
- (Orkney, Shetland) thou, you (2nd person singular subject pronoun, informal)
Usage notes
- Regularly used throughout Scotland up until the middle of the 1800s; now only used as an archaism outside Shetland and Orkney.
References
- “thou, pers. pron, v.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
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