oth

See also: OTH, -oth, o'th', oþ, oþ-, and -oþ

English

Noun

oth (plural oths)

Obsolete spelling of oath
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I‎, published 1921:
  They bring them wines of Greece and Araby,[*] And daintie spices fetcht from furthest Ynd,[*] To kindle heat of corage privily: And in the wine a solemne oth they bynd 35 T' observe the sacred lawes of armes, that are assynd.

Anagrams

HOT, hot, tho, tho', thô

Middle English

Alternative forms

ooth, ath

Etymology

From Old English āþ, from Proto-West Germanic *aiþ, from Proto-Germanic *aiþaz (“oath”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɔːθ/

Noun

oth (plural othes)

oath

Descendants

English: oath
Scots: aith
Yola: oathès (plural)

References

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

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