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Laveth vs Paveth - What's the difference?

laveth | paveth |

As verbs the difference between laveth and paveth

is that laveth is third-person singular of lave while paveth is archaic third-person singular of pave.

laveth

English

Verb

(head)
  • (archaic) (lave)

  • lave

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Verb

    (lav)
  • (obsolete) To pour or throw out, as water; lade out; bail; bail out.
  • (Dryden)
  • To draw, as water; drink in.
  • To give bountifully; lavish.
  • To run down or gutter, as a candle.
  • (dialectal) To hang or flap down.
  • (ambitransitive, archaic) To wash.
  • * Alexander Pope
  • In her chaste current oft the goddess laves .
  • * 1789 , William Lisle Bowles, 'Sonnet I' from Fourteen Sonnets , 1789.
  • the tranquil tide, / That laves the pebbled shore.
  • * 2006 , Cormac McCarthy, The Road , London: Picador, 2007, p. 38.
  • The boy walked out and squatted and laved up the dark water.

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) . More at (l).

    Noun

    (-)
  • (archaic or dialectal) The remainder, rest; that which is left, remnant; others.
  • * 1885 , Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night , Night 12.
  • Then they set upon us and slew some of my slaves and put the lave to flight.
  • * 1896 (posthumously), Robert Louis Stevenson, Songs of Travel and other verses .[https://archive.org/details/songsoftraveloth00stevrich]
  • Give to me the life I love,/Let the lave go by me...

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    References

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    paveth

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (pave)

  • pave

    English

    Verb

  • (British) To cover something with paving slabs.
  • (Canada, US) To cover with stone, concrete, blacktop or other solid covering, especially to aid travel.
  • pave over paradise, put up a parking lot

    Derived terms

    * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l)