teareth

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

kind

archaic form

modern equivalent

tears

part of speech

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

meaning for a pupil

«teareth» means «tears», a form of «tear»: A tear (rhymes with «ear») is a drop of salty water that comes from your eye, when you cry, laugh a lot or get something in your eye. 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 teareth» = «he tears».

examples

• And of Gad he said: Blessed be He that enlargeth Gad; he dwelleth as a lioness, and teareth the arm, yea, the crown of the head. (Torah DEU.33.20, JPS 1917) tree →

tests

ending -eth (stem «tear», 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 «teareth» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.