let

«let» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: allow — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic sense

modern equivalent

allow

part of speech

verb (let, lets, let, letting)

meaning for a pupil

To allow someone to do something. tree →

how it differs from today

Today "let" means allow, and the sentences use it in that sense. The old sense "to hinder" does not appear here.

examples

• And after that he will let you go. (Torah EXO.3.20, JPS 1917) tree →
• "Rapunzel, Rapunzel, Let down your hair." (Grimm's Fairy Stories) tree →
• He let the letter Sheen (ש) predominate in primitive fire, crowned it, combined one with the other, and formed by them, heaven in the world, heat in the year, and the head of male and female. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) tree →

primary record

let

tests

manual 10.3; corpora 3244 (Torah 264, tales 2936, Sefer Yetzirah 44); EWT 175; ratio 1.0 (Torah alone 1.8); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

In the corpora

• And God said: 'Let there be light.' And there was light.
• and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth.' And it was so.
• And he said: Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem; and let Canaan be their servant.
• God enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and let Canaan be their servant.
• Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.'

Trees and pragmatics

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