From Old English -eth, -ath, -oth, -th; akin to Latin -t
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Suryakumar Yadav plays a series of 'outrageous' shots to score 61 from 25 balls and guide India to a total of 186-5 against Zimbabwe at eth T20 World Cup in Australia.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2022
While computers, digital cameras, and videos may have helped in the day-to-day advancement of each surfer, it was attitude and an open mind that mad eth trip successful.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ouchi notes that Intel Corp., a technological leader in the microelectronic field, has fostered a collective work eth ic by dividing employees into project teams.
From Time Magazine Archive
It began with words from the Book of Proverbs: “Happy is the man that find- eth wisdom, and getteth understanding.”
From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman
For est and eth, we find sometimes the consonants only; sometimes, ist or yst, ith or yth; sometimes, for the latter, oth or ath; and sometimes the ending was omitted altogether.
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold
The present singular, 3rd person, of the indicative, ends both in -es or -s, and -eth or -th, the former being the more usual.
From The Lay of Havelok the Dane by Unknown
The corresponding Southern verbal inflexion -eth never occurs; while the Midland -en is only occasionally met with in the third person plural present, and has been introduced by a later copyist.
From Early English Alliterative Poems in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century by Morris, Richard
In the third person singular of the present tense, the West Midland favours the Northern suffix -es or -is; whilst the East Midland favours the Southern suffix -eth.
From English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day by Skeat, Walter W. (Walter William)
Instead of -eth we even find -et, as in herknet, 1.
From The Lay of Havelok the Dane by Unknown
Both the -eth and -e forms are commonly used without the word ye, though.
From Caxton's Book of Curtesye by Furnivall, Frederick James
For details of the Ba-Hima type see Eth. p.
From Man, Past and Present by Haddon, Alfred Court
Eth., p. 130, where it is also said that the Crow were the original owners of the Black Hills.
From Indian Linguistic Families Of America, North Of Mexico Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 1-142 by Powell, John Wesley
Arch. and Eth. papers of the Peabody Museum, vol.
From The Siouan Indians by McGee, W. J. (William John)
A new study from ETH challenges that view.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 25, 2026
"Compared to historical measurements, this was obviously very unusual," said Sonia Seneviratne, professor at the Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science at ETH Zurich in Switzerland.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
Remote work makes employees happier by increasing productivity and making work more interesting, says Filippo Pusterla, lecturer in the department of management, technology and economics at ETH Zurich in Switzerland.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026
ETH Zurich and the researchers are now seeking a company interested in advancing Compound 10 toward drug development.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 8, 2026
During the experiment, no people were in the tunnel for safety reasons, with everything managed remotely from the ETH Zurich lab in northern Switzerland.
From Barron's ● May 11, 2026
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