waketh

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

kind

archaic form

modern equivalent

wakes

part of speech

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

meaning for a pupil

«waketh» means «wakes», a form of «wake»: To wake, or wake up, means to stop sleeping. 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 waketh» = «he wakes».

examples

• "Stern death, thy chilling silence waketh dread; Yet in thy darkest hour there may be light. (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) tree →

tests

ending -eth (stem «wake», a verb of EWT); corpora 1 (Torah 0, tales 1, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.1 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary no archaic label

Trees and pragmatics

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