-eth

Meanings

suffix

alternative -th

archaicUsed to form the third-person singular present indicative of verbs.
Pride goeth before a fall... The good Lord giveth and the good Lord taketh away...
humorousUsed broadly with various verb forms for ironic pseudoarchaic or pseudoecclesiastical effect.
Hark, the assistant manager doth emaileth ye... But thou saideth!... Rolling a natural 20, he killedeth the kobolds... Verily, I am shooketh...

suffix

used to create ordinal numbers from cardinal numbers ending in -y, namely the multiples of ten (other than ten itself): 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, and 90; e.g. twentieth, thirtieth.

-eth · suffix

From Middle English -eth, -th, -ith, from Old English -eþ, -aþ, -þ, from Proto-Germanic *-þi, *-di, from Proto-Indo-European *-ti.

-eth · suffix

From Middle English -th, -eth, -the, -ethe, from Old English -þa, -þe, -oþa, from Proto-Germanic *-þô, *-tô, *-udô, *-dô, from Proto-Indo-European *-tós.

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APA

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Chicago

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