oth
English
Noun
oth (plural oths)
- Obsolete spelling of oath.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I[1], published 1921:
- They bring them wines of Greece and Araby,[*] And daintie spices fetcht from furthest Ynd,[*] To kindle heat of corage privily: And in the wine a solemne oth they bynd 35 T' observe the sacred lawes of armes, that are assynd.
Anagrams
Middle English
Alternative forms
- ooth, ath
Etymology
From Old English āþ, from Proto-West Germanic *aiþ, from Proto-Germanic *aiþaz (“oath”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɔːθ/
Noun
oth (plural othes)
Descendants
References
- “ōth, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.