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Uneath

//ʌˈniːθ// adj, adv

Definitions

Adjective

1
Not easy; hard. obsolete
"who he was, uneath was to descry."

Adverb

1
Not easily; hardly, scarcely. archaic
"Uneath may she endure the flinty streets, / To tread them with her tender-feeling feet."
2
Reluctantly, unwillingly. obsolete
"Ryght so Sir Launcelot departed with grete hevynes, that unneth he myght susteyne hymselff for grete dole-makynge."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English unethe, uneathe (“difficult, not easy”), from Old English unēaþe (“difficult, not easy”); equivalent to un- + eath. More at eath, easy.

Etymology 2

From Middle English unethe, uneathe (“difficult, not easy”), from Old English unēaþe (“difficult, not easy”); equivalent to un- + eath. More at eath, easy.

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