awaiteth

«awaiteth» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: awaits — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

kind

archaic form

modern equivalent

awaits

part of speech

verb, old form of «awaits» (he, she, it)

meaning for a pupil

«awaiteth» means «awaits», a form of «await»: (formal) To await is to wait for something. tree →

how it differs from today

Only the ending is old: -eth was the ending for he, she and it, where today we say -s: «he awaiteth» = «he awaits».

examples

• But an hour had scarcely passed, when the knight stood before the captive pasha, and inquired, "What do you suppose awaiteth thee?" (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) tree →

tests

ending -eth (stem «await», a verb of EWT); corpora 1 (Torah 0, tales 1, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.1 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary no archaic label

Trees and pragmatics

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