eth

See also: Eth, ETH, -eth, eth-, Eth., eð, and eþ

English

Alternative forms

• edh

Etymology

The sound /ɛ/ followed by the sound of the letter, by analogy with other letter names, such as those of f, l, and m.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛð/, (less commonly) /ɛθ/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɛð

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.
   • 1985, Robert Burchfield, The English Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 175:

     In Old English manuscripts thorn and eth did not have different phonetic values but were used positionally[.]

Translations

letter

• Faroese: edd
• German: Eth (de)
• Icelandic: eð (is)
• Norwegian: edd m

See also

• thorn, þorn, þ
• wynn, wen, ƿ
• Wikipedia article on eth

Anagrams

• het, the, EHT, Teh, HET, the-, TEH, teh

Albanian

Etymology 1

Uncertain. Perhaps related to end (“to weave”).

Verb

eth (aorist etha, participle ethur)

1. to mate (cattle)

Etymology 2

Unclear. Perhaps related to Proto-Germanic *audaz (“wealth, riches”), hence Old Saxon ōd, Old High German ōt, Old Norse auðr Icelandic auður.

Noun

eth m

1. (chiefly dialectal) property

Related terms

• pasë
• pata

 

Cornish

Cornish cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : eth     Ordinal : ethves

Etymology 1

From Proto-Brythonic *üiθ, from Proto-Celtic *oxtū (compare Welsh wyth), from Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw.

Numeral

eth

1. eight

Etymology 2

Noun

eth f (singulative ethen)

1. scents

Occitan

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Article

eth m (feminine singular era, masculine plural eths, feminine plural eras)

1. (Gascony) the

   Synonym: lo

Derived terms

• ath
• deth
• peth

 

Pronoun

eth

1. (Gascony) he

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eθ/

Verb

·eth

1. passive singular preterite conjunct of téit

Mutation

Mutation of eth

radical	lenition	nasalization
eth (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	n-eth

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *aiþ.

Noun

eth m

1. oath

Declension

Declension of ēth (masculine a-stem)

	singular	plural
nominative	ēth	ēthos
accusative	ēth	ēthos
genitive	ēthes	ēthō
dative	ēthe	ēthum
instrumental	—	—

Descendants

• Middle Low German: êt
  • German Low German: Eed
  • Plautdietsch: Eit