Where does “abideth” come from?

Abideth comes from Middle English -th added to Old English ābīdan, from Old English bīdan, from Proto-Indo-European -ti and bʰeydʰ-, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European úd.

abideth (English): third-person singular simple present indicative...

Definitions

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative...

Ancestry of “abideth”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1English-eth"goeth, "playeth; used to create ordinal numbers...
2Middle English-ethUsed to form the third-person singular present...
3Old English-eþThird person singular present indicative ending of class 1 weak verbs
4Proto-Germanic-þi—
5Proto-Indo-European-ti—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -ti →