eth

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

English

Alternative forms

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/ or sometimes /ɛθ/[1]
  • 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, Faroese, and phonetics to represent the voiced dental fricative "th" sound as in the English word then.

Translations

See also

References
  1. “eth” in the Collins English Dictionary, Glasgow: HarperCollins Publishers.

Anagrams

Albanian

Etymology 1

Uncertain. Perhaps related to end 'to weave'.

Verb

eth (first-person singular past tense 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. Chiefly dialectal.

Noun

eth m

  1. property

Cornish
Cornish cardinal numbers
 <  7 8 9  > 
    Cardinal : eth

Etymology 1

From Proto-Brythonic *üiθ, from Proto-Celtic *oxtū, from Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw.

Numeral

eth

  1. eight

See also
  • (cardinal number): Previous: seyth. Next: naw

Etymology 2

Noun

eth f (singulative ethen)

  1. scents

Old Irish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /eθ/

Verb

·eth

  1. passive singular preterite conjunct of téit

Mutation
Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
eth unchanged n-eth
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *aiþaz.

Noun

eth m

  1. oath

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