different between ithe vs hithe

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

English

Alternative forms

• hythe.

Etymology

From Old English h?þ. See also Lambeth, Chelsea, Queenhithe (a ward in the City of London), Hythe (a coastal town in Kent).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h??ð/

Noun

hithe (plural hithes)

1. (obsolete) A landing-place on a river; a harbour or small port.
   • 1603, John Stow, A Survey of London, 1842, William J. Thoms (editor), page 134,

     This Edred's hithe, after the aforesaid grants, came again to the king's hands, by what means I have not read, but it pertained unto the queen, and, therefore, was called Ripa reginæ, the Queene's bank, or Queene's hithe, and great profit thereof was made to her use, as may appear with this which followeth.

   • 1839 [1828], Thomas Allen, Thomas Wright (updates for 1839 edition), The History and Antiquities of London, Westminster, Southwark, and Parts Adjacent, Volume 3, page 724,

     After this, the bailiffs of the said Hithe complained, that, since the said recognition, fourteen foreign ships, laden with fish, arrived at Billingsgate, which ships should have arrived at the said Hithe.

Irish

Pronunciation

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

Noun

hithe

1. h-prothesized form of ithe

Old Irish

Noun

hithe f

1. Alternative spelling of ithe