eaves

See also: Eaves

English

WOTD – 9 July 2021

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /iːvz/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ivz/
• Homophone: eves
• Rhymes: -iːvz

Etymology 1

PIE word
*upér

Eaves of the Casa Generalife, a house in Barcelona, Spain.

From Middle English eves (“projecting lower edge of a roof”) [and other forms], from Old English efes, yfes, *ofes (“edge of a roof”), from Proto-West Germanic *ubisu (“hall”), from Proto-Germanic *ubiswō (compare Gothic 𐌿𐌱𐌹𐌶𐍅𐌰 (ubizwa), Old High German obasa (“hall; porch; roof”)), perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *upér (“above; over”) (whence over).

Noun

eaves pl (plural only)

1. (architecture) The underside of a roof that extends beyond the external walls of a building.
   • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 16, column 2:

     Him that you term'd Sir, the good old Lord Gonzallo, / His teares runs downe his beard like winters drops / From eaues of reeds: […]

   • a. 1645, John Milton, “Il Penseroso”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], published 1646, →OCLC, page 42:

     Thus night oft ſee me in thy pale career, / Till civil-ſuited morn appeer, / […] / Or uſher'd with a ſhower ſtill, / When the guſt hath blown his fill, / Ending on the ruſsling Leaves, / With minute drops from off the Eaves.

   • 1818 August, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Rosalind and Helen”, in Rosalind and Helen, a Modern Eclogue; with Other Poems, London: […] [C. H. Reynell] for C[harles] and J[ames] Ollier, […], published 1819, →OCLC, page 22:

     By my window bowered round with leaves, / And down my cheeks the quick tears ran / Like twinkling rain-drops from the eaves, / When warm spring showers are passing o'er: […]

2. (by extension) Something that extends over or projects beyond.
   • 1662, [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge: University Press, 1905, →OCLC, canto I, page 14:

     But after many strains and heaves / He got up to the Saddle eaves.

   • 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto LXV, page 92:

     The mystic glory swims away; / From off my bed the moonlight dies; / And closing eaves of wearied eyes / I sleep till dusk is dipt in gray: […]

     Referring here to the eyelids.

Alternative forms

• eave

Related terms

• eaved
• eavesdrip
• eavesdrop
• eavesdropper
• eavesdroppingly
• eavesdropping (noun)
• eavesread
• eavestrough

 

Translations

underside of a roof that extends beyond the external walls of a building

• Albanian: spreth (sq) m
• Assamese: আগচালি (agsali), আওলা (aüla), পানীপাচ (panipas)
• Belarusian: карні́з m (karníz), карні́за f (karníza), гзымс m (hzyms), страха́ (be) f (straxá)
• Bengali: ছাঁইচ (chãic)
• Bulgarian: стреха́ (bg) f (strehá), стря́ха (bg) f (strjáha)
• Catalan: barbacana (ca) f, ràfec (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 瓦簷／瓦檐 (ngaa⁵ jam⁴) (Guangzhou), 瓦簷口／瓦檐口 (ngaa⁵ jim⁴ hau²)

  Eastern Min: 簷墘／檐墘 (sìng-gièng), 檐墘頭／檐墘头 (sìng-gièng-tàu), 簷墘頭／檐墘头 (sìng-gièng-tàu)

  Hokkien: 厝簷／厝檐 (chhù-chîⁿ) (Xiamen, Zhangzhou), 厝簷口／厝檐口 (chhù-chîⁿ-kháu) (Xiamen), 厝簷墘／厝檐墘 (chhù-chîⁿ-kîⁿ) (Quanzhou), 簾檐／帘檐, 簾簷／帘檐 (zh-min-nan) (nî-chîⁿ) (Taiwan, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)

  Jin: 房簷簷／房檐檐 (fon¹ ie¹ ie^1-3)

  Mandarin: 宸 (zh) (chén), 滴水 (zh) (dīshuǐ), 樀 (zh) (dí), 房簷／房檐 (zh) (fángyán), 核 (zh) (kài), 屋檐 (zh) (wūyán), 簷／檐 (zh) (yán) 沿 (zh) (yán), 𡧃 (zh) (yǔ), 宇 (zh) (yǔ)

  Northern Min: 厝簷／厝檐 (chio̤̿-sâng), 厝簷沿／厝檐沿 (chio̤̿-sâng-ě̤ng)

• Classical Syriac: ܫܡܝܐ (šmayyā)
• Czech: převis střechy m
• Danish: tagskæg c, tagfod c
• Dutch: dakrand (nl) m
• Esperanto: alero
• Finnish: lippa (fi) sg, räystäs (fi) sg
• French: avant-toit (fr) m, corniche (fr) f
• Galician: augueiro m, beirado (gl) m, beiril m, penal (gl) m, sobrepena, sopena, topete m, trofa f
• Georgian: ლავგარდანი (ka) (lavgardani)
• German: Dachüberstand m, Traufe (de) f, Dachrand (de) m (colloquial)
• Greek: αστρέχα (el) f (astrécha), γείσο (el) n (geíso)

  Ancient: σκόμῐον n (skómion)

• Hiligaynon: balisbísan
• Hungarian: eresz (hu)
• Ingrian: räyssäs
• Irish: sceimheal f, urla m
• Italian: cornicione (it) m, gronda (it) f sg, grondaia (it) f
• Japanese: 阿 (ja) (あ, a), 廡 (ja) (ひさし, hisashi), 廂 (ja) (ひさし, hisashi), 庇 (ja) (ひさし, hisashi), 軒 (ja) (のき, noki), 宇 (ja) (う, u)
• Jeju: 집가제 (jipgaje)
• Korean: 처마 (cheoma)
• Ladin: straport m
• Lao: ຊາຍ (sāi)
• Latin: grunda f, suggrunda f
• Macedonian: стре́а f (stréa), натстре́шница f (natstréšnica)
• Manchu: ᠰᡳᡥᡳᠨ (sihin)
• Maori: hiku, hikuhiku, ikuiku, peru, whakamaroke
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: хөмсөг (mn) (xömsög)

• Norman: barbe f (Jersey)
• Occitan: apendat m, fòraget m, fòratech m
• Ottoman Turkish: صاچاق (saçak)
• Polish: okap (pl) m
• Portuguese: beirado (pt) m, beiral (pt) m
• Romanian: streașină (ro) f
• Russian: карни́з (ru) m (karníz), стреха́ (ru) f (strexá), свес кры́ши m (sves krýši), застре́ха (ru) f (zastréxa) (archaic)
• Scottish Gaelic: anainn f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ро̏жнӣк m, стрѐха f, стреја f

  Roman: rȍžnīk (sh) m, strèha (sh) f, streja (sh) f

• Slovak: odkvapová rímsa f
• Slovene: napušč m
• Spanish: alar (es) m, alero (es) m
• Swedish: hofs (sv) c, ofs c, takfot (sv) c
• Tagalog: balisbisan, palantikan, sibe
• Tamil: இறப்பு (ta) (iṟappu), வீட்டிறப்பு (ta) (vīṭṭiṟappu)
• Thai: ชาย (th) (chaai), ชายคา (th) (chaai-kaa)
• Turkish: saçak (tr)
• Ukrainian: карни́з m (karnýz), гзимс m (hzyms), кару́нка f (karúnka), звис m (zvys), підда́шок m (piddášok), підда́шшя n (piddáššja), стрі́ха f (stríxa)
• Vilamovian: traojf f
• Welsh: bargod m, bondo m

something that extends over or projects beyond

• Finnish: läppä (fi), uloke (fi)

Etymology 2

From eave +‎ -s, from a misinterpretation of the -s ending of eaves as forming a plural.

Noun

eaves

1. plural of eave

Further reading

• eaves on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• seave