Middle English

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Etymology

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From Old English dēaþ, from Proto-West Germanic *dauþu, from Proto-Germanic *dauþuz.

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Noun

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deeth (uncountable)

  1. death

Descendants

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  • English: death
  • Scots: deith, daith

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Scots

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deeth (plural deeths)

  1. Alternative form of daith

Yola

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Verb

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deeth

  1. simple past of dee
    • 1867, “CASTEALE CUDDE'S LAMENTATION”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 3, page 104:
      Lickweese mee been deeth in aar heeve.
      Likewise my bees die in their hive.

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  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 104