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to maketh

to maketh

6 9.9
An old form of the verb make used for he or she
  • verb
  • Archaic
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  • Today wine maketh us merry, and money answereth all things.
  • maketh the man
  • Manners maketh

Like the verb is you're using makes this sound sarcastic.

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Examples

  • As the saying goes, clothes maketh the man, or a woman, as the case may be.

  • After all, manners maketh man.

  • Bacon tells us: "Reading maketh a full mind, conversation maketh a ready mind, and writing maketh an exact mind."

    Academic text (1993)
  • The music maketh the Fist.

  • "The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want; he maketh me to lie down in green pastures ..."

    Fiction book (2001)
  • He maketh the winds his messengers.

    Fiction book (1998)
  • LOVE maketh me to lie down in green pastures: LOVE leadeth me beside the still waters.

    Blog text (12)
  • 2 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.

    Blog text (28)
  • As the saying goes, clothing maketh the man.

  • In the grand tale, bravery maketh the hero.

Idioms

9.9

Polite behavior shows who a person really is

Surface Forms

maketh infinitive
making present participle
maketh third person singular
made past
made past participle

Morphology

maketh = make (semi-transparent) = make + eth

Formed from 'make' with the archaic third-person singular suffix '-eth'; the meaning 'makes' is predictable but the archaic marker may not be familiar to modern learners.

Etymology

Maketh is an old form of make with the ending -eth, the kind you find in Shakespeare or the King James Bible. The -eth ending did the same job as today's 's', so maketh simply means 'makes'.