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-eth
-eth 1 or -thsuff. Used to form the archaic third person singular present indicative of verbs: leadeth. [Middle English, from Old English -eth, -ath.]
-eth 2suff. Variant of -th3.-eth suffix forming the archaic third person singular present indicative tense of verbs: goeth; taketh; pitieth. [Old English -eth, -th]
-eth or -thsuffix forming ordinal numbers a variant of -th2: twentieth. eth or edh (ɛð) n. a letter in the form of a crossed d, written đ or ð, used in Old English writing to represent both voiced and unvoiced th and in modern Icelandic and in phonetic alphabets to represent voiced th. -eth1 , an ending of the third person singular present indicative of verbs, now occurring only in archaic forms or used in solemn or poetic language: hopeth; sitteth. [Old English -eth, -ath, -oth, -th; akin to Latin -t] -eth2 , var. of -th 2, the ordinal suffix, used when the cardinal number ends in -y: twentieth; thirtieth. Eth. Ethiopia. EncyclopediaSeeETH |