hath

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Scrabble points
10
Words With Friends
8
Letters
4
Pronunciation
/hæθ/
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/hæθ/ · /həθ/

Definition of hath

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (archaic, form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person)third-person singular simple present indicative of have
    “Thirty days hath September.”
    “What hath God wrought.”
    “To ſet the minde on the racke of long meditation (you ſay) is a torment: to follow the ſwift foote of your hound alday long, hath no wearineſſe: what would you ſay of him that finds better game in his ſtudie, then you in the fielde, and would account your diſport his puniſhment? ſuch there are, though you doubt and wonder.”
    “... unto every one that hath shall be given, and from him that hath not, even that he hath shall be taken away ...”
    “I could plainly diſcover from whence one Family derives a long Chin; why a ſecond hath abounded with Knaves for two Generations, and Fools for two more; why a third happened to be crack-brained, and a fourth to be Sharpers.”
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verb

  1. (archaic, form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person)third-person singular simple present indicative of have
    “Thirty days hath September.”
    “What hath God wrought.”
    “To ſet the minde on the racke of long meditation (you ſay) is a torment: to follow the ſwift foote of your hound alday long, hath no wearineſſe: what would you ſay of him that finds better game in his ſtudie, then you in the fielde, and would account your diſport his puniſhment? ſuch there are, though you doubt and wonder.”
    “... unto every one that hath shall be given, and from him that hath not, even that he hath shall be taken away ...”
    “I could plainly diſcover from whence one Family derives a long Chin; why a ſecond hath abounded with Knaves for two Generations, and Fools for two more; why a third happened to be crack-brained, and a fourth to be Sharpers.”

noun

  1. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of hauth (“unit of measure”).

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Etymology

From Middle English hath, heth, hafth, hefth, from Old English hæfþ, hafaþ (“has”), from Proto-Germanic *habaiþi (“has”), equivalent to have + -th. Cognate with Saterland Frisian häd (“has”), West Frisian hat (“has”), Dutch heeft (“has”), Afrikaans het (“has, have”), German Low German hett (“has”), German hat (“has”).

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