ithe

• IPA^(key): /aɪð/

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• Rhymes: -aɪð

From Middle English ithe, from Old English ȳþ, from Proto-Germanic *unþiz, *unþī (“wave”), from Proto-Indo-European *unt-, *und- (“wave”). Cognate with German Unde (“flood, wave”), Icelandic unnur (“wave”).

ithe (plural ithes)

1. (archaic) A wave.
2. (obsolete, in the plural) Waves; the sea.

From Middle English ithen, related to Old Norse iðja (“to be active, do, perform”). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

ithe (third-person singular simple present ithes, present participle ithing, simple past and past participle ithed)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To thrive; flourish; prosper.

• ithand

• Heit, Hite

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /ˈɪhə/[1]
• (Aran) IPA^(key): /ˈiːhə/, /ˈiː.ə/, /iə/
• (Cois Fharraige) IPA^(key): /iː/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈɪçɪ/[2]
• Homophones: aoi, í, íoth, oíche, uí, Uí (all for the Cois Fharraige pronunciation)

ithe

1. inflection of ith:
   1. analytic present subjunctive
   2. (obsolete) second-person singular present indicative

ithe m (genitive singular ite)

1. verbal noun of ith
2. eating

(as verbal noun):

(as regular noun):

• IPA^(key): /ìðɛ̌/

As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 2 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩgunyũ, njagĩ, kiugũ, and so on.

• (Kiambu)

• (Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including gĩkwa (pl. ikwa), ithangũ (pl. mathangũ), kiugũ, kĩboko, kĩgunyũ, kĩnya, kĩroboto, kĩrũũmi, mbogo, mũcinga, mũgate, mũhaka, mũrangi, mũrũthi, ndaraca, ndirica, njohi, nyũmba, thĩ, and so on.[1]

ithe class 1

1. his or her father

(Proverbs)

• gũtirĩ mwana ũngĩtema agĩtemera ithe
• ithe wa thaka ndarĩ matũ
• mwana mũkũrũ na ithe nĩ hamwe
• mwana ndahũragwo ithe arĩ ho
• mwana ndetagia ithe nyama
• mwana wa rwendo arĩaga nyina na ithe
• mwathwo nĩ nda a(a)kĩra/arũgĩ(ĩ)te mwathwo nĩ ithe
• ũrĩ ithe ndaringagwo ya ngoro

• (my) baba; (thy) thoguo

• “ithe” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 192. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

ithe

1. Alternative form of ythe

• hithe

• IPA^(key): /ˈiθʲe/

ithe f

1. verbal noun of ithid
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 102^a15

     Itius anúas ⁊ dus·claid anís; air ní foircnea in fíni hithe neich di anúas, amal du·ngní int aís sechmaill as·mbeir-som .i. air is cuit adaill ad·n-ellat-sidi in fíni du thabairt neich doib dia thorud.

     They eat it from above and he roots it up from below; for it does not exterminate the vine to eat of anything of it from above, as do the passers-by whom he speaks of, i.e. for it is only a passing visit that they make [lit: ‘that they visit’] to the vine to take something for themselves of its fruit.

• IPA^(key): /ˈiçə/

ithe f

1. verbal noun of ith (“to eat”)