erthe

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛrð(ə)/, /ˈeːrð(ə)/, /ˈɛːrð(ə)/, /-θ(ə)/

From Old English eorþe, from Proto-West Germanic *erþu, from Proto-Germanic *erþō.

• eerthe, eorthe, eorþe, ereth, erth, erþ, erþe, irthe, yrþe, orþe, ȝorthe, horþe, horðe, urþe, urthe, hurde, erde
• earþe, erðe, eorðe, eorth, herðe (Early Middle English)
• oerþe, oerþ (Herebert)

erthe

1. Earth; the world
   • 1407, The Testimony of William Thorpe, page 40:

     And I seide, “Ser, in his tyme maister Ioon Wiclef was holden of ful many men the grettis clerk that thei knewen lyuynge vpon erthe. And therwith he was named, as I gesse worthili, a passing reuli man and an innocent in al his lyuynge […] "

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. The Earth's people or inhabitants
3. country, realm
4. land, terrain
5. ground, earth, dirt, soil, clay
6. earth (one of the alchemical elements)

• English: earth; Earth
• Middle Scots: erd, erde, ȝerd, ȝeird (influenced by erd)
  • Scots: yird; Yird
• Yola: erth, eart, eard, eord, eorth

• “ē̆rthe, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 21 March 2018.

From Old English ierþ; equivalent to eren (“to plough”) +‎ -the (abstract nominal suffix). Compare erd (“home”).

• erþe

erthe (uncountable) (rare)

1. The ploughing of soil.
2. The amount of land ploughable in a day.

• English: earth (confused with Etymology 1)

• “ē̆rthe, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

• erde, irthe

From Proto-West Germanic *erþu.

erthe f

1. earth

• Saterland Frisian: Äide, Idde, Äid
• West Frisian: ierde

• Köbler, Gerhard, Altfriesisches Wörterbuch (4th edition 2014)