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eath

adj

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.

  1. derived from *h₂ew-✻
  2. derived from *h₂éwtus✻
  3. inherited from *auþuz✻
  4. inherited from īeþe
  5. inherited from ethe

Definitions

  1. Easy

    Easy; not hard or difficult.

    • 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",[…].

  2. Easily.

    • 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.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA