eart

See also: 'eart and èart

Middle English

Verb

eart

1. Alternative form of art: second-person singular present of been

Old English

Alternative forms

• earð — Mercian
• arð — Northumbrian
• æart, eært, art, ert, ært

Verb

eart

1. second-person singular present indicative of wesan

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian *erit, *erwit, from Proto-Germanic *arwīts (“pea”). Cognate with Dutch erwt, German Erbse.

Noun

eart c (plural earten or earte, diminutive eartsje)

1. pea

Alternative forms

• earte

Further reading

• “eart (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English earþe, from Old English earþe, from Proto-West Germanic *erþu.

Noun

eart

1. Alternative form of erth

References

• 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 38