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# waketh

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

### kind

archaic form

### modern equivalent

wakes

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

«waketh» means «wakes», a form of «wake»: To wake, or wake up, means to stop sleeping. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/waketh/#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 waketh» = «he wakes».

### examples

- "Stern death, thy chilling silence waketh dread; Yet in thy darkest hour there may be light. (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/waketh/#x1)

### tests

ending -eth (stem «wake», 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 «waketh» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/waketh/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.