eth

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

Translingual

Etymology

Clipping of English Ethiopian sign language.

Symbol

eth

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Ethiopian Sign Language.

See also

  • Wiktionary’s coverage of Ethiopian Sign Language terms

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/, (less commonly) /ɛθ/[1]
    • Audio (Southern England):(file)
  • 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, the IPA and other phonetic alphabets to represent the voiced dental fricative "th" sound as in the English word then. The letter is also used in Faroese, but is generally silent in that language.
    • 1985, Robert Burchfield, The English Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 175:
      In Old English manuscripts thorn and eth did not have different phonetic values but were used positionally[.]

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Albanian

Etymology 1

Uncertain. Perhaps related to end (to weave).

Verb

eth (aorist etha, participle ethur)

  1. to mate (cattle)
Conjugation

Etymology 2

Unclear. Perhaps related to Proto-Germanic *audaz (wealth, riches), hence Old Saxon ōd, Old High German ōt, Old Norse auðr Icelandic auður.

Noun

eth m

  1. (chiefly dialectal) property

Cornish

Cornish numbers (edit)
80
 ←  7 8
8
9  → 
    Cardinal: eth
    Ordinal: ethves
    Ordinal abbreviation: 8ves
    Adverbial: ethgweyth
    Multiplier: ethplek

Etymology 1

From Proto-Brythonic *üiθ, from Proto-Celtic *oxtū (compare Welsh wyth), from Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw.

Numeral

eth

  1. eight

Etymology 2

Noun

eth f (singulative ethen)

  1. scents

Occitan

Pronunciation

  • Audio:(file)

Article

eth m (feminine singular era, masculine plural eths, feminine plural eras)

  1. (Gascony) the
    Synonym: lo

Derived terms

Pronoun

eth

  1. (Gascony) he

Old Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /eθ/

Verb

·eth

  1. passive singular preterite conjunct of téit

Mutation

Mutation of eth
radical lenition nasalization
eth
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)
eth n-eth

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *aiþ.

Noun

eth m

  1. oath

Declension

ēth (masculine a-stem)
singular plural
nominative ēth ēthos
accusative ēth ēthos
genitive ēthes ēthō
dative ēthe ēthum
instrumental

Descendants

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