deeth

Middle English

Alternative forms

(Early ME) deð, dæð, dæþ
deth, deþ, deeþ, deþe, dethe

Etymology

From Old English dēaþ, from Proto-West Germanic *dauþu, from Proto-Germanic *dauþuz.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /dɛːθ/
Rhymes: -ɛːθ

Noun

deeth (uncountable)

death

Descendants

English: death
Scots: deth, daith

References

“dēth, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Yola

Verb

deeth

simple past tense of dee
- 1867, “CASTEALE CUDDE'S LAMENTATION”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 3:
  Lickweese mee been deeth in aar heeve.
  Likewise my bees die in their hive.

References

Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 104

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