meaneth

«meaneth» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: means — 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

means

part of speech

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

meaning for a pupil

«meaneth» means «means», a form of «mean»: To mean is to have a sense: What does this word mean? 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 meaneth» = «he means».

examples

• even all the nations shall say 'Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?' (Torah DEU.29.24, JPS 1917) tree →

tests

ending -eth (stem «mean», 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

In the corpora

• Then I said unto them: What meaneth the high place whereunto ye go?

Trees and pragmatics

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