eave
pronunciation
How to pronounce eave in British English:
UK [i:v]
How to pronounce eave in American English:
US [iv]
Word Origin
- eave (n.)
- "lower part of a roof," especially that which projects beyond the wall, 1570s, alteration of southwest Midlands dialectal eovese (singular), from Old English efes "edge of a roof," also "edge of a forest," from Proto-Germanic *ubaswo-/*ubiswo "vestibule, porch, eaves" (cognates: Old Frisian ose "eaves," Old High German obasa "porch, hall, roof," German Obsen, Old Norse ups, Gothic ubizwa "porch;" German oben "above"), from extended form of PIE *upo- "under, up from under, over," with a sense here of "that which is above or over" (see over). Regarded as plural and a new singular form eave emerged 16c.
Example
- 1. Love exercise is first under eave class hour .
- 2. Love third class hours reviewing a teaching plan under eave .
- 3. There are two spiders in a shabby temple , it is only below eave , go up in niche for a statue of buddha only .
- 4. Two rooms stay in other now two 80 hind schoolgirl , the hope can find the you can be happy below same eave life of be congenial to .
- 5. Trivial rain falls to ground drops , maybe on being able to have swallow having soaked by heavy rain to stand in wire , beneath the house eave the tweet song .