Where does “-eþ” come from?

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

-eþ (Old English): Third person singular present indicative ending of class 1 weak verbs

Definitions

  1. Third person singular present indicative ending of class 1 weak verbs

Ancestry of “-eþ”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Germanic-þi—
2Proto-Indo-European-ti—

Words derived from “-eþ”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -ti →Every word from Proto-Germanic -þi →