eaþe

• eaðe, eoðe, eaða, eaðæ, æaðe, æðe

• IPA^(key): /ˈæ͜ɑː.θe/, [ˈæ͜ɑː.ðe]

From Proto-Germanic *auþê ~ *auþô. Equivalent to īeþe (“easy”) +‎ -e (“-ly”).

ēaþe (comparative īeþ, superlative īeþest)

1. easily
   • late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Pope Gregory's Pastoral Care

     Ac hit mæġ ēaðe ġesǣlan, ġif wē him swelc secgað, ðæt hīe ēac mid ūs ðā ōðre tǣlen, and hīe ðonne eft hira selfra ġescamiġe, ðonne hīe ġemunað ðæt hīe ðæt ilce dōð ðæt hīe on ðǣm ōðrum tǣldon.

     It can easily happen that, if we tell them such things, they will also join us in blaming the others, and afterwards be ashamed of themselves, remembering that they do the same that they blamed in the others.

   • c. 992, Ælfric, "Palm Sunday: On the Lord's Passion"

     Swā fela þūsenda engla meahton ēaðe bewerian Crist wiþ þām unmannum, mid heofonlīcum wǣpnum, ġif hē þrōwian nolde selfwilles for ūs.

     That many thousands of angels could have easily defended Christ against those brutes [the men who came to arrest Jesus], with weapons from heaven, if he didn't want to suffer voluntarily for us.

• unēaþe (“barely”)

See īeþe.

ēaþe

1. Alternative form of īeþe