different between ethe vs ithe

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): /a?ð/
• Rhymes: -a?ð

Etymology 1

From Middle English ythe, ithe, uthe, from Old English ?þ (“wave, billow, flood, sea, liquid, water”), from Proto-West Germanic [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *unþiz, *unþ? (“wave”), from Proto-Indo-European *unt-, *und- (“wave”). Cognate with German Unde (“flood, wave”), Icelandic unnur (“wave”).

Noun

ithe (plural ithes)

1. (archaic) A wave.
2. (obsolete, in the plural) Waves; the sea.

Etymology 2

From Middle English ithen, related to Old Norse iðja (“to be active, do, perform”). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Verb

ithe (third-person singular simple present ithes, present participle ithing, simple past and past participle ithed)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To thrive; flourish; prosper.

Derived terms

• ithand

Anagrams

• Heit, Hite

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??h?/
• (Aran) IPA^(key): /?i?h?/, /?i?.?/, /i?/
• (Cois Fharraige) IPA^(key): /i?/

Verb

ithe

1. inflection of ith:
   1. present subjunctive analytic
   2. (obsolete) second-person singular present indicative

Noun

ithe m (genitive singular ite)

1. verbal noun of ith
2. eating

Declension

(as verbal noun):

(as regular noun):

Mutation

Kikuyu

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ìð??/

As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 2 with a disyllabic stem, together with k?guny?, njag?, kiug?, and so on.

• (Kiambu)

• (Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including g?kwa (pl. ikwa), ithang? (pl. mathang?), kiug?, k?boko, k?guny?, k?nya, k?roboto, k?r??mi, mbogo, m?cinga, m?gate, m?haka, m?rangi, m?r?thi, ndaraca, ndirica, njohi, ny?mba, th?, and so on.

Noun

ithe 1

1. his or her father

Derived terms

(Proverbs)

• g?tir? mwana ?ng?tema ag?temera ithe
• ithe wa thaka ndar? mat?
• mwana m?k?r? na ithe n? hamwe
• mwana ndah?ragwo ithe ar? ho
• mwana ndetagia ithe nyama
• mwana wa rwendo ar?aga nyina na ithe
• mwathwo n? nda a(a)k?ra/ar?g?(?)te mwathwo n? ithe
• ?r? ithe ndaringagwo ya ngoro

See also

• (my) baba; (thy) thoguo

References

• “ithe” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 192. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Middle English

Noun

ithe

1. Alternative form of ythe

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• hithe

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?i??e/

Noun

ithe f

1. verbal noun of ithid
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 102^a15

Inflection

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

ithe f

1. (act of) eating