leaneth

«leaneth» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: leans — 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

leans

part of speech

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

meaning for a pupil

«leaneth» means «leans», a form of «lean»: To lean is to bend your body towards something or away from straight: «Lean forward». 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 leaneth» = «he leans».

examples

• And the slope of the valleys that inclineth toward the seat of Ar, and leaneth upon the border of Moab. — (Torah NUM.21.15, JPS 1917) tree →

tests

ending -eth (stem «lean», a verb of EWT); corpora 1 (Torah 1, tales 0, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.1 (Torah alone 2.3); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

In the corpora

• And the slope of the valleys that inclineth toward the seat of Ar, and leaneth upon the border of Moab. —

Trees and pragmatics

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