See heth on Wiktionary
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"expansion": "Inherited from Old English hǣþ",
"name": "inh+"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "gmw-pro",
"3": "*haiþi"
},
"expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *haiþi",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*haiþī"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *haiþī",
"name": "inh"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Inherited from Old English hǣþ, from Proto-West Germanic *haiþi, from Proto-Germanic *haiþī.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "hethes",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "heeth",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "heþ",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "heath",
"tags": [
"alternative",
"Late-Middle-English"
]
},
{
"form": "hethe",
"tags": [
"alternative",
"Late-Middle-English"
]
},
{
"form": "hetthe",
"tags": [
"alternative",
"Late-Middle-English"
]
},
{
"form": "heþe",
"tags": [
"alternative",
"Late-Middle-English"
]
},
{
"form": "heyth",
"tags": [
"alternative",
"Late-Middle-English"
]
},
{
"form": "hoth",
"tags": [
"alternative",
"Late-Middle-English"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "noun",
"g": "",
"g2": "",
"g3": "",
"head": "",
"sort": "",
"var": ""
},
"expansion": "heth",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"pl": "hethes"
},
"expansion": "heth (plural hethes)",
"name": "enm-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Middle English",
"lang_code": "enm",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"word": "hethen"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Middle English terms with quotations",
"Requests for translations of Middle English quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
"text": "14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. General Prologue: 5-6.\nWhan Zephirus eek with his sweete breeth\nInspired hath in every holt and heeth",
"translation": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A heath; uncultivated land overgrown with scrubby vegetation."
],
"links": [
[
"heath",
"heath"
],
[
"uncultivated",
"uncultivated"
],
[
"land",
"land"
],
[
"scrubby",
"scrubby"
],
[
"vegetation",
"vegetation"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"Shrubbery that grows in heaths, especially heather (plants of the family Ericaceae)."
],
"links": [
[
"Shrubbery",
"shrubbery"
],
[
"heaths",
"heaths"
],
[
"heather",
"heather"
],
[
"Ericaceae",
"Ericaceae#Translingual"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Middle English terms with rare senses"
],
"glosses": [
"A field or clearing."
],
"links": [
[
"field",
"field"
],
[
"clearing",
"clearing"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(rare) A field or clearing."
],
"tags": [
"rare"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈhɛ̝ːθ/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛːθ"
}
],
"word": "heth"
}
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