Neath vs Eath - What's the difference?
neath | eath |
Easy; not hard or difficult.
*1600 , (Edward Fairfax), The (Jerusalem Delivered) of (w), XIX, lxi:
*:There, as he look'd, he saw the canvas rent, / Through which the voice found eath and open way.
*1609 , (Thomas Heywood), Troia Britanica, or Great Britain's Troy :
*:At these advantages he knowes 'tis eath to cope with her quite severed from her maids.
*1847 , (Hugh Miller), First Impressions of England and its people :
*:There has been much written on the learning of Shakespeare but not much to the purpose: one of our old Scotch proverbs is worth all the dissertations on the subject I have yet seen. "God's bairns", it says, "are eath to lear",.
Easily.
*1823 , J. Kennedy, Poems :
As a preposition neath
is beneath.As a proper noun Neath
is a town in Wales, United Kingdom.As an adjective eath is
easy; not hard or difficult.As an adverb eath is
easily.eath
English
Alternative forms
* (l), (l), (l) (Scotland)Adjective
(er)Antonyms
* uneath * difficultDerived terms
* (l)Adverb
(head)- Their food and their raiment he eith can supply.