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edh
also eth (ĕth)n.
1. The letter ð, used in Old English and Old Saxon manuscripts to represent both the voiceless sound (th) of Modern English thin and the voiced sound (th) of Modern English this, and in modern Icelandic orthography to represent the voiced sound (th).
2. The symbol (ð) in the International Phonetic Alphabet representing the voiced interdental fricative, as in the or either.
[Icelandic.]
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edh
(ɛð) oreth
n
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eth
or edh
(ɛð)n.
a letter in the form of a crossed d, written đ or ð, used in Old English writing to represent both voiced and unvoiced th and in modern Icelandic and in phonetic alphabets to represent voiced th.
-eth1
, an ending of the third person singular present indicative of verbs, now occurring only in archaic forms or used in solemn or poetic language: hopeth; sitteth.
[Old English -eth, -ath, -oth, -th; akin to Latin -t]
-eth2
, var. of -th 2, the ordinal suffix, used when the cardinal number ends in -y: twentieth; thirtieth.
Eth.
Ethiopia.
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