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-eth en · X · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• /ɪθ/
• (Southern-England) audio
• /-əθ/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *-ōþi Proto-West Germanic *-ōþ Old English -aþ Middle English -eth English -eth From Middle English -eth, -th, -ith, from Old English -eþ, -aþ, -þ, from Proto-Germanic *-þi, *-di, from Proto-Indo-European *-ti.

Meanings

1. (archaic, morpheme) Used to form the third-person singular present indicative of verbs.
   • Pride goeth before a fall... The good Lord giveth and the good Lord taketh away...
2. (humorous, morpheme) Used broadly with various verb forms for ironic pseudoarchaic or pseudoecclesiastical effect.
   • Hark, the assistant manager doth emaileth ye... But thou saideth!... Rolling a natural 20, he killedeth the kobolds... Verily, I am shooketh...

Forms

Coordinates

-st · -est

Relateds

-e

-eth en · X · etymology 2

Etymology

From Middle English -th, -eth, -the, -ethe, from Old English -þa, -þe, -oþa, from Proto-Germanic *-þô, *-tô, *-udô, *-dô, from Proto-Indo-European *-tós.

Meanings

1. (morpheme) used to create ordinal numbers from cardinal numbers ending in -y, namely the multiples of ten (other than ten itself): 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, and 90; e.g. twentieth, thirtieth.