eath
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.62 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
Example Sentences
- "There, as he look'd, he saw the canvas rent, / Through which the voice found eath and open way."
- "At these advantages he knowes 'tis eath to cope with her quite severed from her maids."
- "There has been much written on the learning of Shakespeare but not much to the purpose: one of our old Scotch proverbs is worth all the dissertations on the subject I have yet seen. "God's bairns", it says, "are eath to lear",[…]."
- "He rub'd, and prickt, and pierst her to the bones, / Digging as farre as eath he might for stones ..."
- "Their food and their raiment he eith can supply."
Etymology
From Middle English ethe (“easy”), from Old English īeþe, from Proto-Germanic *auþuz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwtus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew- (“to enjoy, consume”). Cognate with Scots eith (“easy”), Old Saxon ōþi, Old High German ōdi (“easy, effortless”), Middle High German œde (“easy”), Old Norse auðr, auð- (“easy”), Icelandic auð (“(adverb) easily”), auð- (“easy”). More at easy.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
eather (comparative)
eathest (superlative)
eathe (alternative)
eeth (alternative)
eith (alternative)
aith (alternative)