seekest

«seekest» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: you seek — 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

you seek

part of speech

verb, old form used with thou

meaning for a pupil

«seekest» means «you seek», a form of «seek»: To seek means to look for something or someone. tree →

how it differs from today

Only the ending is old: -est or -st was the ending used with thou, which today is you with no ending: «thou seekest» = «you seek».

examples

• And the man asked him, saying: 'What seekest thou?' (Torah GEN.37.15, JPS 1917) tree →
• ‘Is it thou that seekest my daughter?’ (The Lilac Fairy Book) tree →
• Said Yspathaden Penkawr, "Is it thou that seekest my daughter?" (Celtic Fairy Tales) tree →

tests

ending -est (stem «seek», a verb of EWT); corpora 4 (Torah 1, tales 3, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.5 (Torah alone 2.3); Wiktionary no archaic label

In the corpora

• And the man asked him, saying: 'What seekest thou?'

Trees and pragmatics

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