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Eaves

//iːvz// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
  2. 2
    A hamlet in Woodplumpton parish, city of Preston district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD4937).
Noun
  1. 1
    The underside of a roof that extends beyond the external walls of a building. plural, plural-only

    "Him that you term'd Sir, the good old Lord Gonzallo, / His teares runs downe his beard like winters drops / From eaues of reeds: […]"

  2. 2
    plural of eave form-of, plural
  3. 3
    the overhang at the lower edge of a roof wordnet
  4. 4
    Something that extends over or projects beyond. broadly, plural, plural-only

    "But after many strains and heaves / He got up to the Saddle eaves."

Etymology

Etymology 1

PIE word *upér From Middle English eves (“projecting lower edge of a roof”) [and other forms], from Old English efes, yfes, *ofes (“edge of a roof”), from Proto-West Germanic *ubisu (“hall”), from Proto-Germanic *ubiswō (compare Gothic 𐌿𐌱𐌹𐌶𐍅𐌰 (ubizwa), Old High German obasa (“hall; porch; roof”)), perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *upér (“above; over”) (whence over).

Etymology 2

From eave + -s, from a misinterpretation of the -s ending of eaves as forming a plural.

Etymology 3

English surname, from Middle English atte evese (“at the border, edge”), from Old English efes. Compare Reeves. Also sometimes a variant of Eve.

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