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# hangeth

«hangeth» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **hangs** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic form

### modern equivalent

hangs

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

«hangeth» means «hangs», a form of «hang»: To hang is to put something up so it is held from above, like a coat on a hook. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/H/hangeth/#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 hangeth» = «he hangs».

### examples

- "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/H/hangeth/#x1)

### tests

ending -eth (stem «hang», a verb of EWT); corpora 1 (Torah 0, tales 1, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.1 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

### In the corpora

- [He stretcheth out the north over the empty space, and hangeth the earth over nothing.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.662/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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