aught

«aught» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: anything — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic word

modern equivalent

anything

part of speech

pronoun

meaning for a pupil

Anything at all. tree →

how it differs from today

No longer common; today we say anything.

examples

• And whosoever beareth aught of the carcass of them shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even. (Torah LEV.11.25, JPS 1917) tree →
• Say, knowest thou aught of Mabon?" (Celtic Fairy Tales) tree →
• And if aught of their carcass fall upon any sowing seed which is to be sown, it is clean. (Torah LEV.11.37, JPS 1917) tree →

primary record

aught

tests

manual 3; corpora 43 (Torah 16, tales 27, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 4.9 (Torah alone 37.3); Wiktionary archaic (first sense)

In the corpora

• And whosoever beareth aught of the carcass of them shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even.
• And if aught of their carcass fall upon any sowing seed which is to be sown, it is clean.
• But if water be put upon the seed, and aught of their carcass fall thereon, it is unclean unto you.
• And if thou sell aught unto thy neighbour, or buy of thy neighbour's hand, ye shall not wrong one another.
• And if a man will redeem aught of his tithe, he shall add unto it the fifth part thereof.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «aught» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.