airth
See also: Airth
English
Noun
airth (uncountable)
- (chiefly Scotland, Mid-Ulster) Alternative spelling of earth.
- 1857, S. H. Hammond, Wild Northern Scenes[1]:
- I've hearn some folks pretend that it comes from the bowels of the airth, but it don't; its[sic] a thing of the air, and I've a notion it travels a mighty long way from its startin' place afore it reaches us. "
- 1889, Annie Trumbull Slosson, Fishin' Jimmy[2]:
- "As I was tellin' ye," he said, "I allers loved fishin' an' knowed 't was the best thing in the hull airth.
- 1901, Henry van Dyke, The Ruling Passion[3]:
- I guess there ain't nothin' on airth he loves better 'n that holler piece o' wood, and the toons that's inside o' it.
Anagrams
Scots
Etymology 1
Noun
airth (plural airths)
- alternative form of airt (“art”)
References
- “airth, n.1”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.
Etymology 2
Noun
airth (plural airths)
- alternative form of airt (“direction”)
Verb
airth (third-person singular simple present airths, present participle airthin, simple past airthit, past participle airthit)
- alternative form of airt (“to direct”)
References
- “airth, n.2 & v. tr.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.
Etymology 3
Noun
airth