ethe

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English[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From the Ancient Greek ἤθη (ḗthē), the contracted nominative plural form of ἦθος (êthos).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

ethe

  1. plural of ethos
    • 1892, Bernhard Bosanquet, A History of Aesthetic, page 72:
      And it is a further proof of our view, that beginners in poetry attain completeness in expression and ethe [plural of ethos], before they are capable of composing the march of incidents; almost all the earliest poets are instances of this.
    • 1942, Journal of Legal and Political Sociology, International Universities Press, page 85:
      The relation between social groups and their ethe is rational; they vary in fixed ratios.
    • 2003, Patchen Markell, Bound by Recognition, page 76:
      [] it makes sense to say that these speeches are representations of their ethe.

Etymology 2[edit]

See eath.

Adjective[edit]

ethe (comparative more ethe, superlative most ethe)

  1. (obsolete) easy
    • 1579, Edmund Spenser, “The Shepheardes Calender”, in The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 4, Charles C. Little and James Brown, published 1839, page 330:
      Hereto, the hilles bene nigher heaven, / And thence the passage ethe; / As well can proove the piercing levin, / That seldome falles beneath.

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Albanian[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Albanian *aida(s), from Proto-Indo-European *h2eidh-o- (burning fire). Cognate to Ancient Greek αἶθος (aîthos, burning, fire),[1] Old English ád (funeral pile), Old Saxon ēd (firebrand).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

ethe f

  1. fever

References[edit]

  1. ^ Demiraj, B. (1997) Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz [Albanian Etymologies: []] (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 7)‎[1] (in German), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 168

Kamba[edit]

Noun[edit]

ethe

  1. father

Middle English[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Old English īeþe, ēaþe, from Proto-West Germanic *auþī, modification of Proto-Germanic *auþuz.

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Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈɛːð(ə)/, /ˈeːð(ə)/, /-θ(ə)/

Adjective[edit]

ethe

  1. easy
Descendants[edit]
  • English: eath
  • Scots: eith
  • Yola: eeth, eêth, eafe, eeefe

References[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

Verb[edit]

ethe

  1. Alternative form of eten