walkest

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

kind

archaic form

modern equivalent

you walk

part of speech

verb, old form used with thou

meaning for a pupil

«walkest» means «you walk», a form of «walk»: To walk means to move by putting one foot in front of the other, slower than 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 walkest» = «you walk».

examples

• And ye shall teach them your children, talking of them, when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. (Torah DEU.11.19, JPS 1917) tree →
• and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. (Torah DEU.6.7, JPS 1917) tree →

tests

ending -est (stem «walk», a verb of EWT); corpora 2 (Torah 2, tales 0, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.2 (Torah alone 4.7); Wiktionary no archaic label

Trees and pragmatics

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