eth

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

English

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: /ɛð/, X-SAMPA: /ED/
• Rhymes: -ɛð

Alternative forms

• edh

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, Faroese, and phonetics to represent the voiced dental fricative "th" sound as in the English word then.

Translations

letter

• Faroese: edd (fo)
• Icelandic: eð (is)

• Norwegian: edd (no) m

See also

• thorn, þorn, þ
• wynn, wen, ƿ
• Wikipedia article on eth

Anagrams

• het
• teh, TEH
• the

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Albanian

Etymology 1

Uncertain. Perhaps related to end 'to weave'.

Noun

eth (first-person singular past tense etha, participle ethur)

1. to mate (cattle)

Etymology 2

From Proto-Indo-European *eik- (“ability, possession”). Compare Old English āgan 'to own'.

Noun

eth m

1. (dialectal) own, property

Related terms

• pata
• pasë

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Cornish

Cornish cardinal numbers

<  7	8	9  >
Cardinal : eth

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *oxtū, Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw.

Numeral

eth

1. (cardinal) eight

See also

• (cardinal number): Previous: seyth. Next: naw

Noun

eth f (singulative ethen)

1. scents

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Old Saxon

Alternative forms

• ēþ

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *aiþaz, whence also Old English āþ, Old Frisian ēth, Old High German eid, Old Norse eiðr, Gothic 𐌰𐌹𐌸𐍃 (aiþs). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *oyt-.

Noun

eth m

1. oath

Descendants

• Middle Low German: ēt