carrieth

«carrieth» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: carries — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic form

modern equivalent

carries

part of speech

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

meaning for a pupil

«carrieth» means «carries», 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: -eth was the ending for he, she and it, where today we say -s: «he carrieth» = «he carries».

examples

• Have I conceived all this people? have I brought them forth, that Thou shouldest say unto me: Carry them in thy bosom, as a nursing-father carrieth the sucking child, unto the land which Thou didst swear unto their fathers? (Torah NUM.11.12, JPS 1917) tree →

tests

ending -eth (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

In the corpora

• The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth; and it sweepeth him out of his place.

Trees and pragmatics

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