different between withe vs ithe

English

Etymology

From Middle English withe, withthe, from Old English wiþe, wiþþe (“cord, band, thong, fetter”), from Proto-Germanic *wiþiz, *wiþj? (“cord, rope”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyt- (“that which winds or bends, branch, switch”), from Proto-Indo-European *wey- (“to turn, wind, bend”). Cognate with Danish vidje (“wicker”), Swedish vidja (“withe, wicker, osier”), Icelandic við, viðja (“a withe”), Latin v?tis (“vine”). Doublet of vice.

Pronunciation

• enPR: w?th, w?th, w?th
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /w??/, /w?ð/, /wa?ð/
  • (US) IPA^(key): /w??/, /w?ð/

Noun

withe (plural withes)

1. A flexible, slender twig or shoot, especially when used as a band or for binding; a withy.
2. A band of twisted twigs.
3. An elastic handle to a tool to save the hand from the shock of blows.
4. (nautical) An iron attachment on one end of a mast or boom, with a ring, through which another mast or boom is rigged out and secured.
5. (architecture) A partition between flues in a chimney.

Translations

Verb

withe (third-person singular simple present withes, present participle withing, simple past and past participle withed)

1. To bind with withes.
2. To beat with withes.

Anagrams

• White, white

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