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# flieth

verb, old form of «flies» (he, she, it)

«flieth» in the English dictionary: Early Modern English — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Early Modern English

### Meaning

«flieth» means «flies», a form of «fly»: To fly is to move through the air with wings, like a bird, an insect or a plane. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/F/flieth/#m1)

### Then and now

Only the ending is old: -eth was the ending for he, she and it, where today we say -s: «he flieth» = «he flies».

### Examples

- the likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the heaven, (Torah DEU.4.17, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/F/flieth/#x1)
- "See, see, she hangeth by the throte, and therefor she speaketh not," saide others; "and the beast flieth not like a beast;" so she opened her mouth and "pashte hir all to pieces." (Indian Fairy Tales) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/F/flieth/#x2)

### Note

Today: flies.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «flieth» in the Early Modern English dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/F/flieth/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«flieth» in the Early Modern English dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/emode/w/flieth.html) on Mova free.