different between ethe vs eche

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.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i?t?/

Etymology

From Middle English eche, ece, from Old English ??e, ??e (“perpetual, eternal, everlasting”), from Proto-Germanic *aiwukiz (“eternal”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?yewg?ih?- and *h?yug?ih?- respectively, to assume a reconstruction of Pre-Germanic *h?oyug?ih?- with an original meaning of "ever-living". Cognate with Dutch eeuwig (“eternal”), German ewig (“eternal”), Swedish evig (“perpetual, eternal”), Latin i?gis (“continual”).

Adjective

eche (comparative more eche, superlative most eche)

1. (dialectal, archaic) Eternal; everlasting.

Related terms

Anagrams

• EHEC

Asturian

Verb

eche

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of echar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of echar

Galician

Etymology

From Suevic * agj? (compare English edge, Dutch egge, German Ecke, Swedish egg, Norwegian egg)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?et??e?/

Noun

eche m (plural eches)

1. hide-and-seek (children’s game)

   Synonym: agachadas

2. rocky ridge

   Synonyms: farallón, facho, barroco, berreco, louro, xorfe

References

• “eche” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.

Jakaltek

Etymology

From Proto-Mayan *ekaj.

Noun

eche

1. axe

References

• Church, Clarence; Church, Katherine (1955) Vocabulario castellano-jacalteco, jacalteco-castellano?^[1] (in Spanish), Guatemala C. A.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, pages 28; 18

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English ?l?.

Adjective

eche

1. each

Alternative forms

• ælc, ælch, elch, ilk

Descendants

• English: each
• Scots: ilk, elk

Etymology 2

From Old English e?e.

Noun

eche

1. Alternative form of ache (“aching”)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?et??e/, [?e.t??e]

Verb

eche

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of echar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of echar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of echar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of echar.