unto

«unto» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: to — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic word

modern equivalent

to

part of speech

preposition

meaning for a pupil

To; towards a person or place. tree →

how it differs from today

No longer used in everyday speech; today we say to.

examples

• And God spoke unto Noah, saying: (Torah GEN.8.15, JPS 1917) tree →
• There replied unto him a living man: (Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore) tree →
• For God^[18] is superlative in his Unity, there is none equal unto Him: what number canst thou place before One. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) tree →

primary record

to

tests

manual 11; corpora 2437 (Torah 2372, tales 56, Sefer Yetzirah 9); EWT 1; ratio 92.0 (Torah alone 1845.0); Wiktionary no archaic label

In the corpora

• Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife, and they shall be one flesh.
• And the woman said unto the serpent: 'Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat;
• And the serpent said unto the woman: 'Ye shall not surely die;
• And the LORD God called unto the man, and said unto him: 'Where art thou?'
• And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD.

Trees and pragmatics

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