eath

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
7
Words With Friends
6
Letters
4

Definition of eath

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Easy; not hard or difficult.
    “There, as he look'd, he saw the canvas rent, / Through which the voice found eath and open way.”
    “At these advantages he knowes 'tis eath to cope with her quite severed from her maids.”
    “There has been much written on the learning of Shakespeare but not much to the purpose: one of our old Scotch proverbs is worth all the dissertations on the subject I have yet seen. "God's bairns", it says, "are eath to lear",[…].”
See all 2 definitions

adj

  1. Easy; not hard or difficult.
    “There, as he look'd, he saw the canvas rent, / Through which the voice found eath and open way.”
    “At these advantages he knowes 'tis eath to cope with her quite severed from her maids.”
    “There has been much written on the learning of Shakespeare but not much to the purpose: one of our old Scotch proverbs is worth all the dissertations on the subject I have yet seen. "God's bairns", it says, "are eath to lear",[…].”

adv

  1. Easily.
    “He rub'd, and prickt, and pierst her to the bones, / Digging as farre as eath he might for stones ...”
    “Their food and their raiment he eith can supply.”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From Middle English ethe (“easy”), from Old English īeþe, from Proto-Germanic *auþuz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwtus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew- (“to enjoy, consume”). Cognate with Scots eith (“easy”), Old Saxon ōþi, Old…

See full etymology

From Middle English ethe (“easy”), from Old English īeþe, from Proto-Germanic *auþuz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwtus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew- (“to enjoy, consume”). Cognate with Scots eith (“easy”), Old Saxon ōþi, Old High German ōdi (“easy, effortless”), Middle High German œde (“easy”), Old Norse auðr, auð- (“easy”), Icelandic auð (“(adverb) easily”), auð- (“easy”). More at easy.

Hooks

3 extensions · 3 front

A single letter you can add to eath to make another valid word.

Find your best play with eath

See every word you can make from a set of letters that includes eath, or browse word lists you can mine for high-scoring plays.