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eft en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• /ɛft/
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Etymology

From Middle English evete, from Old English efete, of unknown origin.

Meanings

1. A newt, especially a smooth newt (Lissotriton vulgaris, syn. Triturus punctatus), of Europe.
   • How did he like it when the live creatures Tickled and toused and browsed him all over, And worm, slug, eft, with serious features Came in, each one, for his right of trover? 1844, Robert Browning, "Garden Fancies," II. Sibrandus Schafnaburgennis
   • Only these marishes and myrie bogs, / In which the fearefull ewftes do build their bowres, / Yeeld me an hostry mongst the croking frogs […]. 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

Forms

Translations (6)

pl tryton (newt) · pl traszka (newt) · ru трито́н (newt) · pdt Äajdakjsel (newt) · bg тритон (newt) · cs čolek (newt)

eft en · ADV · etymology 2

Pronunciation

• /ɛft/
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From Middle English eft, from Old English eft, æft, from Proto-West Germanic *afti, from Proto-Germanic *afti. Cognate with Old Saxon eft, aft, eht (“again, afterwards”), Middle Low German echt (“again, afterward”). Compare English after, aft.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable, obsolete) Again; afterwards
   • And when they were all gone, / And the dim moon doth eft withhold the light,[…] 1557, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, The Fourth Book of Virgil:

Deriveds

eftsoons

Translations (4)

ru за́ново (again; afterwards) · pl znowu (again; afterwards) · ru по́сле (again; afterwards) · pl znów (again; afterwards)