coverest

«coverest» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: you cover — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic form

modern equivalent

you cover

part of speech

verb, old form used with thou

meaning for a pupil

«coverest» means «you cover», a form of «cover»: To cover is to put something over another thing to hide or protect it. 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 coverest» = «you cover».

examples

• Thou shalt make thee twisted cords upon the four corners of thy covering, wherewith thou coverest thyself. (Torah DEU.22.12, JPS 1917) tree →

tests

ending -est (stem «cover», 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

• Thou shalt make thee twisted cords upon the four corners of thy covering, wherewith thou coverest thyself.
• Who coverest Thyself with light as with a garment, who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain;

Trees and pragmatics

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