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# awaiteth

«awaiteth» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **awaits** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### kind

archaic form

### modern equivalent

awaits

### part of speech

verb, old form of «awaits» (he, she, it)

### meaning for a pupil

«awaiteth» means «awaits», a form of «await»: (formal) To await is to wait for something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/A/awaiteth/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Only the ending is old: -eth was the ending for he, she and it, where today we say -s: «he awaiteth» = «he awaits».

### examples

- But an hour had scarcely passed, when the knight stood before the captive pasha, and inquired, "What do you suppose awaiteth thee?" (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/A/awaiteth/#x1)

### tests

ending -eth (stem «await», a verb of EWT); corpora 1 (Torah 0, tales 1, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.1 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary no archaic label

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «awaiteth» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/A/awaiteth/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.