eth
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
The sound /ɛ/ followed by the sound of the letter, by analogy with other letter names, such as those of f, l, and m.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛð/, (less commonly) /ɛθ/[1]
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- Rhymes: -ɛð
Noun
eth (plural eths)
- A letter (capital Ð, small ð) introduced into Old English to represent its dental fricative, then not distinguished from the letter thorn, no longer used in English but still in modern use in Icelandic, the IPA and other phonetic alphabets to represent the voiced dental fricative "th" sound as in the English word then. The letter is also used in Faroese, but is generally silent in that language.
References
- “eth”, in Collins English Dictionary.
Albanian
Etymology 1
Uncertain. Perhaps related to end (“to weave”).
Etymology 2
Unclear. Perhaps related to Proto-Germanic *audaz (“wealth, riches”), hence Old Saxon ōd, Old High German ōt, Old Norse auðr Icelandic auður.
Cornish
| < 7 | 8 | 9 > |
|---|---|---|
| Cardinal : eth Ordinal : ethves | ||
Etymology 1
From Proto-Brythonic *üiθ, from Proto-Celtic *oxtū (compare Welsh wyth), from Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw.
Occitan
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Old Irish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /eθ/
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| eth | unchanged | n-eth |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
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