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Webster 1913 Edition

Eath

Eath

(ēth)
,
Adj.
&
adv.
[AS.
eáðe
.]
Easy or easily.
[Obs.]
“Eath to move with plaints.”
Fairfax.

Webster 1828 Edition

Eath

EATH

,
Adj.
easy, and adv. easily.

Definition 2024

eath

eath

See also: eaþ

English

Alternative forms

  • eith, eeth, aith (Scotland)

Adjective

eath ‎(comparative eather, superlative eathest)

  1. (Now chiefly dialectal) Easy; not hard or difficult.
    • 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XIX, lxi:
      There, as he look'd, he saw the canvas rent, / Through which the voice found eath and open way.
    • 1609, Thomas Heywood, Troia Britanica, or Great Britain's Troy:
      At these advantages he knowes 'tis eath to cope with her quite severed from her maids.
    • 1847, Hugh Miller, First Impressions of England and its people:
      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", […].

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Adverb

eath

  1. (Now chiefly dialectal) Easily.
    • 1823, J. Kennedy, Poems:
      Their food and their raiment he eith can supply.

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Etymology

From Middle English ethe ‎(“not difficult, easy”), from Old English ēaþe, īeþe ‎(“easy, smooth, not difficult”), from Proto-Germanic *auþaz, *auþijaz ‎(“easy, pleasing”), from *auþiz ‎(“deserted, empty”), from Proto-Indo-European *aut- ‎(“empty, lonely”). Cognate with Scots eith ‎(“easy”), Old Saxon ōþi ‎(“deserted, empty”), Old High German ōdi ‎(“empty, abandoned, easy, effortless”), Middle High German öde ‎(“blank, vacant, easy”) (German öde), Old Norse auðr ‎(“deserted, empty”), Icelandic auð ‎(“easy”), Gothic 𐌰𐌿𐌸𐌴𐌹𐍃 ‎(auþeis, “desolate, deserted”). Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian vetëm ‎(“alone”) from vet ‎(“his/her/their own, self”). More at easy.

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