Skip to content

Old English · suffix

-oþ

Part of speech: suffix, masculine
Declension: strong a-stem
IPA: /oθ/
Syllables: oθ (1 syllable)
Modern English: -th concrete

Meaning

used to form concrete nouns from verbs

folgian (“to follow”) + -oþ → folgoþ (“retinue, following”)

Declension

Declension of -oþ
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	-oþ	-oþas
Accusative	-oþ	-oþas
Genitive	-oþes	-oþa
Dative	-oþe	-oþum

All forms (6)

-oþ
-oþas
-oþes
-oþa
-oþe
-oþum

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *-ōþu, from Proto-Germanic *-ōþuz.

Descendants

-th

Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-oþ · CC BY-SA 4.0 licence · Attribution