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Where does “cutteth” come from?

cutteth (English) comes from English -eth, from Middle English -eth, from Old English -eþ, from Proto-Germanic -þi, from Proto-Indo-European -ti.

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

Definitions

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

Ancestry of “cutteth”, 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-eþ—
4Proto-Germanic-þi—
5Proto-Indo-European-ti—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -ti →