liketh

«liketh» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: likes — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

kind

archaic form

modern equivalent

likes

part of speech

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

meaning for a pupil

«liketh» means «likes», a form of «like»: To like something is to enjoy it or think it is good. 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 liketh» = «he likes».

examples

• he shall dwell with thee, in the midst of thee, in the place which he shall choose within one of thy gates, where it liketh him best; thou shalt not wrong him. (Torah DEU.23.16, JPS 1917) tree →

tests

ending -eth (stem «like», a verb of EWT); corpora 1 (Torah 1, tales 0, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.1 (Torah alone 2.3); Wiktionary no archaic label

Trees and pragmatics

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