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both
English
Alternative forms
- bothe (archaic)
Etymology
From Middle English bothe, boþe, from Old English b? þ? (“both the; both those”) and Old Norse báðir, from Proto-Germanic *bai. Cognate with Saterland Frisian bee (“both”), West Frisian beide (“both”), Dutch beide (“both”), German beide (“both”), Swedish både, båda, Danish både, Norwegian både, Icelandic báðir. Replaced Middle English b? from a form of Old English b??en.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: b?th, IPA(key): /b???/
- (General American) enPR: b?th, IPA(key): /bo??/
- (nonstandard US) enPR: b?lth, IPA(key): /bo?l?/
- (Philadelphia), IPA(key): [b????]
- Rhymes: -???
Determiner
both
- Each of the two; one and the other; referring to two individuals or items.
- 1717, Viscount Bolingbroke, Reflexions upon Exile
- He will not bear the loss of his rank, because he can bear the loss of his estate; but he will bear both, because he is prepared for both.
- 1717, Viscount Bolingbroke, Reflexions upon Exile
Usage notes
This word does not come between a possessive and its head noun. Say both of my hands or both my hands, not *my both hands. Say, both the king's horses, not *the king's both horses.
Derived terms
Translations
Pronoun
both
- Each of the two, or of the two kinds.
Conjunction
both
- Including both of (used with and).
- Both you and I are students.
- Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. There was a great deal of them, lavish both in material and in workmanship.
- (obsolete) Including all of (used with and).
- Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound.
- 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
- He prayeth well who loveth well both man and bird and beast.
- 1892, Richard Congreve, Essays Political, Social, and Religious (volume 2, page 615)
- […] as he appreciates its beauty and its rich gifts, as he regards it with venerant love, fed by both his intellectual powers, his contemplation, and his meditation.
Translations
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:both.
See also
Anagrams
- OTH-B
Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish both (“hut, bothy, cot; cabin”), from Proto-Celtic *but? (compare Middle Welsh bot (“dwelling”)), from Proto-Indo-European *b?uH- (“to be”). Related to English booth.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b??h/, /b??/
Noun
both f (genitive singular botha, nominative plural bothanna or botha)
- Booth, hut.
Declension
- Alternative declension
Derived terms
Mutation
Further reading
- "both" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
- Entries containing “both” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “2 both”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old Norse búð.
Noun
both (plural boths)
- Alternative form of bothe (“booth”)
Etymology 2
Old English b? þ?; influenced by Old Norse báðir.
Determiner
both
- Alternative form of bothe (“both”)
Conjunction
both
- Alternative form of bothe (“both”)
Old Irish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bo?/
Noun
both f (genitive buithe)
- Alternative form of buid
Inflection
Verb
·both
- preterite passive conjunct of at·tá
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oth
English
Noun
oth (plural oths)
- Obsolete spelling of oath
Anagrams
- HOT, hot, tho, tho', thô
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