stumblest

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

kind

archaic form

modern equivalent

you stumble

part of speech

verb, old form used with thou

meaning for a pupil

«stumblest» means «you stumble», a form of «stumble»: To stumble is to trip and almost fall when walking or running. 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 stumblest» = «you stumble».

examples

• "Why stumblest thou? scentest thou any ill?" (Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore) tree →
• "Why stumblest thou, sorry jade? scentest thou some ill?" (Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore) tree →

tests

ending -est (stem «stumble», a verb of EWT); corpora 6 (Torah 0, tales 6, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.7 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary no archaic label

Trees and pragmatics

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