oth

See also: OTH, -oth, o'th', oþ, oþ-, and -oþ

English

Noun

oth (plural oths)

1. Obsolete spelling of oath
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I‎^[1], published 1921:

     They bring them wines of Greece and Araby,[*] And daintie spices fetcht from furthest Ynd,[*] To kindle heat of corage privily: And in the wine a solemne oth they bynd 35 T' observe the sacred lawes of armes, that are assynd.

Anagrams

• HOT, hot, tho, tho', thô

Middle English

Alternative forms

• ooth, ath

Etymology

From Old English āþ, from Proto-West Germanic *aiþ, from Proto-Germanic *aiþaz (“oath”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔːθ/

Noun

oth (plural othes)

1. oath

Descendants

• English: oath
• Scots: aith
• Yola: oathès (plural)

References

• “ōth, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.