flieth

«flieth» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: flies — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic form

modern equivalent

flies

part of speech

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

meaning for a pupil

«flieth» means «flies», a form of «fly»: To fly is to move through the air with wings, like a bird, an insect or a plane. 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 flieth» = «he flies».

examples

• the likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the heaven, (Torah DEU.4.17, JPS 1917) tree →
• "See, see, she hangeth by the throte, and therefor she speaketh not," saide others; "and the beast flieth not like a beast;" so she opened her mouth and "pashte hir all to pieces." (Indian Fairy Tales) tree →

tests

ending -eth (stem «fly», a verb of EWT); corpora 2 (Torah 1, tales 1, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.2 (Torah alone 2.3); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

In the corpora

• the likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the heaven,
• Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven; the canker-worm spreadeth itself, and flieth away.
• Thou shalt not be afraid of the terror by night, nor of the arrow that flieth by day;

Trees and pragmatics

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