hangeth

«hangeth» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: hangs — 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

hangs

part of speech

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

meaning for a pupil

«hangeth» means «hangs», a form of «hang»: To hang is to put something up so it is held from above, like a coat on a hook. 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 hangeth» = «he hangs».

examples

• "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 «hang», a verb of EWT); corpora 1 (Torah 0, tales 1, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.1 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

In the corpora

• He stretcheth out the north over the empty space, and hangeth the earth over nothing.

Trees and pragmatics

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