eft
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English [edit]
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Etymology 1 [edit]
From Old English efeta, of unknown origin.
Noun [edit]
eft (plural efts)
- A newt, especially the European smooth newt (Triton punctatus).
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.10:
- Only these marishes and myrie bogs, / In which the fearefull ewftes do build their bowres, / Yeeld me an hostry mongst the croking frogs […].
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.10:
Usage notes [edit]
The term red eft is used for the land-dwelling juvenile stage of the eastern newt (Notophthalmus viridescens).
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Etymology 2 [edit]
From Old English eft, from Proto-Germanic *aftiz. Compare after, aft.
Adverb [edit]
eft (not comparable)
- (obsolete) again; afterwards
- 14thC, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Merchant’s Prologue and Tale in The Canterbury Tales,
- Were I unbounden, all so may I the,
- I woulde never eft come in the snare.
- 1384, John Wycliffe, Bible (Wycliffe): Mark, ii, 1,
- And eft he entride in to Cafarnaum, aftir eiyte daies.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book XXI:
- And so effte he hyd the swerde, and returned agayne and tolde the Kynge that he had bene at the watir and done hys commaundement.
- 1557, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, The Fourth Book of Virgil,
- And when they were all gone, / And the dim moon doth eft withhold the light, ...
- 14thC, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Merchant’s Prologue and Tale in The Canterbury Tales,
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Old English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Proto-Germanic *aftiz. Cognate with Old Frisian eft, Old Saxon eft, Old Norse ept.
Pronunciation [edit]
- IPA: /eft/
Adverb [edit]
eft
- a second time, again; afterwards
Old Saxon [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Proto-Germanic *aftiz. Cognate with Old Frisian eft, Old English eft, Old Norse ept.
Adverb [edit]
eft
