different between ethel vs eth

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????l/

Etymology 1

From Middle English ethel, from Old English æþel, ?þel.

Noun

ethel

1. The letter Œ/œ, or the rune ?.

Alternative forms

• œthel

Synonyms

• (letter, rune): odal

Etymology 2

Noun

ethel

1. Alternative form of athel (“tamarisk”).
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:ethel.

Anagrams

• Leeth, Lethe, Theel, lethe

Middle English

Noun

ethel

1. homeland, ancestral territory (especially of the Anglo-Saxons or other Germanic peoples)
2. patrimony

Adjective

ethel

1. athel (noble)

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