eatest

«eatest» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: you eat — 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

you eat

part of speech

verb, old form used with thou

meaning for a pupil

«eatest» means «you eat», a form of «eat»: To eat is to put food in your mouth, chew it and swallow 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 eatest» = «you eat».

examples

• but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it; for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.' (Torah GEN.2.17, JPS 1917) tree →

tests

ending -est (stem «eat», a verb of EWT); corpora 3 (Torah 1, tales 2, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.3 (Torah alone 2.3); Wiktionary no archaic label

In the corpora

• When thou eatest the labour of thy hands, happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.

Trees and pragmatics

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