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# flieth

«flieth» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **flies** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic form

### modern equivalent

flies

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

«flieth» means «flies», a form of «fly»: To fly is to move through the air with wings, like a bird, an insect or a plane. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/F/flieth/#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 flieth» = «he flies».

### examples

- the likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the heaven, (Torah DEU.4.17, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/F/flieth/#x1)
- "See, see, she hangeth by the throte, and therefor she speaketh not," saide others; "and the beast flieth not like a beast;" so she opened her mouth and "pashte hir all to pieces." (Indian Fairy Tales) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/F/flieth/#x2)

### tests

ending -eth (stem «fly», a verb of EWT); corpora 2 (Torah 1, tales 1, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.2 (Torah alone 2.3); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

### In the corpora

- [the likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the heaven,](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.129/)
- [Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven; the canker-worm spreadeth itself, and flieth away.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/NAM.49/)
- [Thou shalt not be afraid of the terror by night, nor of the arrow that flieth by day;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1640/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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