eth
3
9.9
- noun
- Archaic
- My name's Adam, the creature that walk-eth.
Examples
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From now on, even when speaking officially, we must get rid of these "eths."
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And why-eth must we always go on with these "eths"?
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"I guess we're in agreement on basics now," Merion eth said.
Fiction book (1991) -
Students graduate from high school with the matura at the age of 19 or 20 years and must study for 4 to 5 more years to obtain an ETH, or what corresponds to a master's degree.
Academic text (1997) -
Only 10 applications (7.5%) came from environmental science graduates, as a result of the fact that only the first two classes at the ETH had graduated from environmental science studies at the time the job was advertised (see Figure 6).
Academic text (1997) -
In re-watching it for the "I don't remember how many-eth time," there were times when I'd get a bit distracted; some of the suspense was gone for me.
Blog text (12) -
In older texts, one often encounters verbs that end in eth, such as 'he goeth to the market.'
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In classical literature, the phrase 'he maketh a great effort' illustrates the use of eth in the third-person singular.
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The verb form eth was commonly used in Shakespearean plays, highlighting an archaic style of English.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Eth appears as the verb ending -eth in older English to mean 'he or she or it does' and is like our modern -s ending, so in words like 'runneth' or 'maketh' eth shows the third-person singular just as 'he runs' does today.