carriest

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

kind

archaic form

modern equivalent

you carry

part of speech

verb, old form used with thou

meaning for a pupil

«carriest» means «you carry», a form of «carry»: To carry is to hold something and take it with you. tree →

how it differs from today

Only the ending is old: -est or -st was the ending used with thou, which today is you with no ending: «thou carriest» = «you carry».

examples

• When thou goest forth to battle against thine enemies, and the LORD thy God delivereth them into thy hands, and thou carriest them away captive, (Torah DEU.21.10, JPS 1917) tree →

tests

ending -est (stem «carry», a verb of EWT); corpora 1 (Torah 1, tales 0, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.1 (Torah alone 2.3); Wiktionary no archaic label

Trees and pragmatics

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