FromMiddle Englishhath,heth,hafth,hefth, fromOld Englishhæfþ,hafaþ(“has”), fromProto-Germanic*habaiþi(“has”), equivalent tohave +-th. Cognate withSaterland Frisianhäd(“has”),West Frisianhat(“has”),Dutchheeft(“has”),Afrikaanshet(“has, have”),German Low Germanhett(“has”),Germanhat(“has”).
hath
- (archaic)third-personsingularsimplepresentindicative ofhave
Thirty dayshath September.
- Whathath God wrought.
1611,Joseph Hall, “Epistle VIII. To E.B. Dedicated to Sir George Goring.”, inEpistles […], volume III, London: […] [William Stansby andWilliam Jaggard] for Samuell Macham, […],→OCLC, 5th decade,pages95–96:To ſet the minde on the racke of long meditation (you ſay) is a torment: to follow the ſwift foote of your hound alday long,hath no wearineſſe: what would you ſay of him that finds better game in his ſtudie, then you in the fielde, and would account your diſport his puniſhment? ſuch there are, though you doubt and wonder.
1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “A Further Account ofGlubbdubdrib. […]”, inTravels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […],→OCLC, part III (A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubbdubdribb, Luggnagg, and Japan),page108:I could plainly diſcover from whence one Family derives a long Chin; why a ſecondhath abounded with Knaves for two Generations, and Fools for two more; why a third happened to be crack-brained, and a fourth to be Sharpers.
1749,Henry Fielding, chapter I, inThe History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume IV, London:A[ndrew] Millar, […],→OCLC:To be plain, I much question whether the politician, whohath generally a good nose,hath not scented out somewhat of the utility of this practice.
hath (pluralhaths)
- Alternative form ofhauth(“unit of measure”).
hath!
- alternative form ofha(“ha!”)
hath!
- alternative form ofhuth(“huh!”)
hath
- third-personsingularpresentindicative ofhaven
